title: Microbial bile acid metabolic clusters: the bouncers at the bar.
abstract: Colonization resistance refers to the ability of the colonic microbiota to prevent invasion by pathogens including Clostridium difficile. In a recent article, Buffie et al. (2014) have demonstrated that a single metabolic cluster present in the normal, colonic microflora is responsible for preventing C. difficile invasion of healthy hosts.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA. Electronic address: jsorg@bio.tamu.edu.
authors.forename: Joseph A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Sorg
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001647:Bile Acids and Salts / Q000378:metabolism*; D016360:Clostridioides difficile / Q000502:physiology*; D004198:Disease Susceptibility / Q000382:microbiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007413:Intestinal Mucosa / Q000378:metabolism*; D007422:Intestines / Q000382:microbiology*; D064307:Microbiota / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D001647:Bile Acids and Salts