Examination of diarrheagenicity of cytolethal distending toxin: Suckling mouse response to the products of the cdtABC genes of Shigella dysenteriae

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 428-433

  Okuda, Jun ^a   Fukumoto, Manabu ^a   Takeda, Yoshifumi ^b   Nishibuchi, Mltsuaki ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR GLOBAL HEALTH AND MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN; ENTEROTOXIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHO CELL; DESCENDING COLON; DIARRHEA; GENE ISOLATION; HYPERPLASIA; INTESTINE FLUID; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHIGELLA DYSENTERIAE; TISSUE NECROSIS;

EID: 0031036624     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.65.2.428-433.1997     Document Type: Article

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