Clostridium difficile toxinotype XI (A-B-) exhibits unique arrangement of PaLoc and its upstream region

Anaerobe

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 393-395

  Geric Stare, Barbara ^c   Rupnik, Maja ^a,b  

^a Textile Institute Maribor   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Clostridium difficile; Genome reorganization; PaLoc; Pathogenicity locus; Toxinotype

Indexed keywords

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE TOXIN A; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE TOXIN B;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; GENE LOCUS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIAL TOXINS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; ENTEROTOXINS; GENE ORDER; GENETIC LOCI;

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE;

EID: 77956062842     PISSN: 10759964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anaerobe.2010.04.001     Document Type: Article

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