Variable flagella expression among clonal toxin A-/B+ Clostridium difficile strains with highly homogeneous flagellin genes

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 187-188

  Pituch, H ^a   Obuch Woszczatynski P ^a   van den Braak, N ^a   van Belkun, A ^a   Kujawa, M ^a   Luczak, M ^a   Meisel Mikolajczyk, F ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA; CLINDAMYCIN; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE TOXIN A; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE TOXIN B; FLAGELLIN; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE;

BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FLAGELLUM; HUMAN; LETTER; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; POLAND; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE;

EID: 0036489882     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1469-0691.2002.00394.x     Document Type: Letter

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