Effect of isoleucine on toxin production by Clostridium difficile in a defined medium

Zentralblatt fur Bakteriologie

Volumn 287, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 375-386

  Ikeda, Daisuke ^a   Karasawa, Tadahiro ^a   Yamakawa, Kiyotaka ^a   Tanaka, Ryuichiro ^b   Namiki, Mikio ^a   Nakamura, Shinichi ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b YAKULT CENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR MICROBIOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE;

EID: 0032077465     PISSN: 09348840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0934-8840(98)80174-6     Document Type: Article

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