Evaluation of a test for Clostridium difficile toxins A and B for the diagnosis of neonatal swine enteritis

Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 258-259

  Post, Karen W ^a   Jost, B Helen ^b   Songer, J Glenn ^b  

^a Rollins Anim Dis Diagn Laboratory   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN; ENTEROTOXIN; TCDA PROTEIN, CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; TOXB PROTEIN, CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CHO CELL; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EVALUATION; HAMSTER; IMMUNOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; NEWBORN; PATHOGENICITY; PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS COLITIS; REFERENCE VALUE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SWINE; SWINE DISEASE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CELL DEATH; CHO CELLS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CRICETINAE; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; ENTEROTOXINS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; REFERENCE VALUES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES;

EID: 0036583558     PISSN: 10406387     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/104063870201400314     Document Type: Article

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