Artificial sweetener usage thought to facilitate C difficile virulencenature.com 2 pointsgrowlix8 years ago2 commentsSaveHideCopy link On HNComments−DrScump8yActual page title: "Dietary trehalose enhances virulence of epidemic Clostridium difficile"Submitting with a genericized title causes confusion with common consumer ASes like aspartame, sucralose, Ace-K, etc.Submitted earlier with original title:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16778032−ohiovr8yI think I read about this on HN before. This is a common sugar like additive put in icecream because of it's texture properties. Its like the favorite food of the bug mentioned here. How did an artifical ingredient become a prefered food for it?
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Actual page title: "Dietary trehalose enhances virulence of epidemic Clostridium difficile"
Submitting with a genericized title causes confusion with common consumer ASes like aspartame, sucralose, Ace-K, etc.
Submitted earlier with original title:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16778032
I think I read about this on HN before. This is a common sugar like additive put in icecream because of it's texture properties. Its like the favorite food of the bug mentioned here. How did an artifical ingredient become a prefered food for it?