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Deborah Smyth
Researcher at Ulster University
Publications - 2
Citations - 413
Deborah Smyth is an academic researcher from Ulster University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Clostridium difficile & Mutant. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 2 publications receiving 405 citations.
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Increased sporulation underpins adaptation of Clostridium difficile strain 630 to a biologically-relevant faecal environment, with implications for pathogenicity.
Nigel G. Ternan,Nicola Diana Moore,Deborah Smyth,Gordon J. McDougall,James William Allwood,Susan R. Verrall,Chris I R Gill,James S. G. Dooley,Geoff McMullan +8 more
TL;DR: A more physiologically–relevant model of the colonic milieu is created to study gut pathogen biology, incorporating human faecal water into growth media and assessing the physiological effects of this on C. difficile strain 630, and it is shown that interaction with FW causes fundamental changes in C. diffusion biology that will lead to increased disease transmissibility.
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Inactivation of the dnaK gene in Clostridium difficile 630 Δerm yields a temperature-sensitive phenotype and increases biofilm-forming ability.
Shailesh Jain,Deborah Smyth,Barry O'Hagan,John T. Heap,Geoff McMullan,Nigel P. Minton,Nigel G. Ternan +6 more
TL;DR: The phenotype resulting from dnK disruption is more akin to that observed in Escherichia coli dnaK mutants, rather than those in the Gram-positive model organism Bacillus subtilis.