A sucrose-rich diet promotes Clostridioides difficile carriage without prior antibiotics and significantly exacerbates both acute disease and long-term colonization.

Gut Microbes · 2025 · PMC12530488 · PMID 41088805

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did not reach statistical significancep = 0.144not close (p > 0.1)

Absolute bacterial abundance was lower in HSD-fed mice after 2 weeks, although this difference did not reach statistical significance (1.1 × 10 9 ± 3.4 × 10 8 vs. 5.8 × 10 8 ± 1.7 × 10 8 , p = 0.144, paired t-test).

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&lt;b&gt;A sucrose-rich diet promotes&lt;/b&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Clostridioides difficile&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;b&gt;carriage without prior antibiotics and significantly exacerbates both acute disease and long-term colonization&lt;/b&gt;.

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<b>A sucrose-rich diet promotes</b> <i><b>Clostridioides difficile</b></i> <b>carriage without prior antibiotics and significantly exacerbates both acute disease and long-term colonization</b>.