Serum antibody responses to Clostridium difficile toxin A: Predictive and protective?

Gut

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 167-168

  Phillips, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE TOXIN A;

ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIARRHEA; HUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT INFECTION;

AGED; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL TOXINS; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENCE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0034927831     PISSN: 00175749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/gut.49.2.167     Document Type: Note

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