Actual page title: "Dietary trehalose enhances virulence of epidemic Clostridium difficile"<p>Submitting with a genericized title causes confusion with common consumer ASes like aspartame, sucralose, Ace-K, etc.<p>Submitted earlier with original title:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16778032" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16778032</a>
I think I read about this on HN before. This is a common sugar like additive put in icecream because of it's texture properties. Its like the favorite food of the bug mentioned here. How did an artifical ingredient become a prefered food for it?