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| − | <p>C. difficile infection (CDI) is the leading cause of hospital and nursing home acquired infection in the developed world.
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| − | <p>We hope to change these statistics with a new, revolutionary approach to C. difficile, which harnesses the power of probiotics and quorum sensing—ProQuorum.
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| − | <p>Synthetic biology allows for a specific, targeted approach, which should preserve the other beneficial gut bacteria. The ProQuorum detection system means C.diff-specific endolysin is only secreted when C.difficile is present and should only be able to destroy the C.difficile bacteria which should mitigate any off-target effects.</p>
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| − | <p>When we first started brainstorming for our project, many of us were concerned about the ever-looming threat of antibiotic resistance. When we looked into it, we discovered that the Centres for Disease Control (CDC) had cited Clostridioides difficile as one of the 3 most “urgent threats” with regard to antimicrobial resistance. Of the three, it has the highest incidence of infections per year (CDC, 2015). So we took it upon ourselves to respond to the CDC’s call to arms.
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| − | Thus, our engineered bacteria can detect the localised presence of C. difficile and in response, secrete an endolysin molecule which specifically binds to C. difficile cell walls and cleaves the peptidoglycan molecules to cause lysis of the C. difficile cells.</p>
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