Effect of hemorrhagic toxin produced by Clostridium sporogenes on rabbit ligated intestinal loop

Microbial Pathogenesis

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 31-38

  Hara Kudo, Yukiko ^a   Ogura, Atsuo ^a   Noguchi, Yoko ^a   Terao, Kiyoshi ^b   Kumagai, Susumu ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Clostridium sporogenes; Hemorrhagic toxin; Rabbit intestinal loop

Indexed keywords

CLOSTRIDIUM TOXIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLEEDING; CLOSTRIDIUM SPOROGENES; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; IN VITRO STUDY; INTESTINE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SKIN TEST; TOXICITY TESTING; TOXIN SYNTHESIS;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM SPOROGENES; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 18744423961     PISSN: 08824010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mpat.1996.0088     Document Type: Article

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