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Meanings of metabolically dormant in English
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Usage of metabolically dormant in English
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C. difficile infections begin when its metabolicallydormant spores germinate to form toxin-producing vegetative cells.
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Clostridium difficile causes considerable health care-associated gastrointestinal disease that is transmitted by its metabolicallydormant spore form.
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In order for C. difficile to cause infection, its metabolicallydormant spores must germinate in the gastrointestinal tract.
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However, microsporidia alternate between two life stages: the intracellular proliferative stage and the extracellular and largely metabolicallydormant infectious spore.
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These complications arise in part because C. difficile makes metabolicallydormant spores, which are the major infectious particle of this obligate anaerobe.