TcdB or not TcdB: A tale of two Clostridium difficile toxins

Future Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 121-123

  Carter, Glen P ^a   Awad, Milena M ^a   Kelly, Michelle L ^a   Rood, Julian I ^a   Lyras, Dena ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Clostridium difficile; essential; isogenic mutants; large clostridial toxins; TcdA; TcdB; virulence

Indexed keywords

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE TOXIN A; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE TOXIN B;

BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; CLOSTRIDIUM SORDELLII; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; ENTEROTOXINS; HUMANS; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE;

EID: 79952424082     PISSN: 17460913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/fmb.10.169     Document Type: Review

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