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Clostridioides difficile and neurological disorders: New perspectives

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FRONTIERS IN NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 16, Issue -, Pages -

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FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2022.946601

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C; difficile; brain diseases; microbiota; gut-brain; fecal microbiota transplantation

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This article outlines the importance of gut microbiota in neurological diseases, with a focus on the role of Clostridioides difficile in patients with neurological diseases, and highlights the potential value of microbiota-based therapeutic strategies targeting this pathogen.
Despite brain physiological functions or pathological dysfunctions relying on the activity of neuronal/non-neuronal populations, over the last decades a plethora of evidence unraveled the essential contribution of the microbial populations living and residing within the gut, called gut microbiota. The gut microbiota plays a role in brain (dys)functions, and it will become a promising valuable therapeutic target for several brain pathologies. In the present mini-review, after a brief overview of the role of gut microbiota in normal brain physiology and pathology, we focus on the role of the bacterium Clostridioides difficile, a pathogen responsible for recurrent and refractory infections, in people with neurological diseases, summarizing recent correlative and causative evidence in the scientific literature and highlighting the potential of microbiota-based strategies targeting this pathogen to ameliorate not only gastrointestinal but also the neurological symptoms.

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