Adhesion of Clostridinm difficile to Caco2 cell line, a colonization factor

Reviews and Research in Medical Microbiology

Volumn 8, Issue SUPPL. 1, 1997, Pages

  Al Saif, Nabeel M ^a,b   Hobot, Jan A ^a   Brazier, Jon S ^a   Duerden, Brian I ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b MNPBF   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Adhesion assay; Clostridinm difficile; Human colonie epithelial caco 2 cells

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; CELL STRAIN CACO 2; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; COLON MUCOSA; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIARRHEA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME;

EID: 0031453485     PISSN: 0954139X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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