Meanings of dormant spore in anglès

Owing to its strict anaerobic requirements, the infectious and transmissible morphotype is the dormant spore.

Clostridium difficile causes considerable health care-associated gastrointestinal disease that is transmitted by its metabolically dormant spore form.

C. difficile infections begin when its metabolically dormant spores germinate to form toxin-producing vegetative cells.

Somebody managed to sneak a few of the dormant spores lying around outside the dome into him.

In order for C. difficile to cause infection, its metabolically dormant spores must germinate in the gastrointestinal tract.

These complications arise in part because C. difficile makes metabolically dormant spores, which are the major infectious particle of this obligate anaerobe.