Production of a complete binary toxin (actin-specific ADP- ribosyltransferase) by Clostridium difficile CD196

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1402-1407

  Perelle, Sylvie ^a   Gibert, Maryse ^a   Bourlioux, Pierre ^b   Corthier, Gerard ^c   Popoff, Michel R ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b Centre Pharmaceutique   (France)

^c CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOSTRIDIUM TOXIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TOXIN ANALYSIS; TOXIN SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0031004306     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.65.4.1402-1407.1997     Document Type: Article

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