C. Difficile May Cause Colorectal Cancer

C. Difficile May Cause Colorectal Cancer
New research found that cells exposed to Clostridioides difficile (C. difficile) turned on genes that drive cancer and turned off genes that protect against it. Shutterstock
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Clostridioides difficile, or C. difficile, a bacterial species that’s well known for causing serious diarrheal infections, may also drive colorectal cancer, research in mice has found.

The findings appear in the journal Cancer Discovery, and may expose another troublesome role for this microbe, which causes approximately 500,000 infections a year in the United States—many of which prove incredibly difficult to clear.
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