Vaccination against lethal Clostridium difficile enterocolitis with a nontoxic recombinant peptide of toxin A

Current Microbiology

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1990, Pages 29-32

  Lyerly, David M ^a   Johnson, John L ^a   Frey, Steven M ^a   Wilkins, Tracy D ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TOXIN; VACCINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; FEMALE; HAMSTER; NONHUMAN; RABBIT;

ANIMALIA; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CRICETINAE; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 0025030511     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: 14320991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02090096     Document Type: Article

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