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Further treatment of CDI with antibiotics is not always effective and can lead to antibiotic resistance and recurrent infections (rCDI). The most effective treatment for rCDI is the reestablishment of an intact microbiota via fecal microbiota transplants (FMTs). However, the success of FMTs has been difficult to generalize because the microbial interactions that prevent engraftment and facilitate the successful clearance of\n                  <jats:italic>C. difficile<\/jats:italic>\n                  are still only partially understood. Here we show how microbial community-scale metabolic models (MCMMs) accurately predicted known instances of\n                  <jats:italic>C. difficile<\/jats:italic>\n                  colonization susceptibility or resistance\n                  <jats:italic>in vitro<\/jats:italic>\n                  and\n                  <jats:italic>in vivo<\/jats:italic>\n                  . MCMMs provide detailed mechanistic insights into the ecological interactions that govern\n                  <jats:italic>C. difficile<\/jats:italic>\n                  engraftment, like cross-feeding or competition involving metabolites like succinate, trehalose, and ornithine, which differ from person to person. Indeed, three distinct\n                  <jats:italic>C. difficile<\/jats:italic>\n                  metabolic niches emerge from our MCMMs, two associated with positive growth rates and one that represents non-growth, which are consistently observed across 15,204 individuals from five independent cohorts. Finally, we show how MCMMs can predict personalized engraftment and\n                  <jats:italic>C. difficile<\/jats:italic>\n                  growth suppression for a probiotic cocktail (VE303) designed to replace FMTs for the treatment rCDI. Overall, this powerful modeling approach predicts personalized\n                  <jats:italic>C. difficile<\/jats:italic>\n                  engraftment risk and can be leveraged to assess probiotic treatment efficacy. MCMMs could be extended to understand the mechanistic underpinnings of personalized engraftment of other opportunistic bacterial pathogens, beneficial probiotic organisms, or more complex microbial consortia.\n                <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1101\/2023.04.28.538771","type":"posted-content","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,4,29]],"date-time":"2023-04-29T23:50:10Z","timestamp":1682812210000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":10,"title":["Personalized\n                  <i>Clostridioides difficile<\/i>\n                  engraftment risk prediction and probiotic therapy assessment in the human gut"],"prefix":"10.64898","author":[{"given":"Alex","family":"Carr","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9157-5974","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Nitin S.","family":"Baliga","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7476-0868","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Christian","family":"Diener","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8724-7916","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Sean M.","family":"Gibbons","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"54368","reference":[{"key":"2024010921380935000_2023.04.28.538771v3.1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1038\/s41579-020-0433-9"},{"key":"2024010921380935000_2023.04.28.538771v3.2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.cell.2015.11.001"},{"key":"2024010921380935000_2023.04.28.538771v3.3","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1128\/mBio.00974-15"},{"key":"2024010921380935000_2023.04.28.538771v3.4","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1038\/nrmicro3552"},{"key":"2024010921380935000_2023.04.28.538771v3.5","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1093\/glycob\/cwaa097"},{"key":"2024010921380935000_2023.04.28.538771v3.6","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Baxter, N. 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