Clostridium perfringens as the etiological agent of antibiotic associated diarrhoea;Clostridium perfringens jako czynnik etiologiczny biegunki poantybiotykowej

Postepy Mikrobiologii

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 17-25

  Ka̧dzielska, Joanna ^a   Obuch Woszczatyński, Piotr ^a   Pituch, Hanna ^a   Młynarczyk, Grazyna ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Antibiotic associated diarrhoea; Beta2 toxin; C. Perfringens food poisoning; Enterotoxin (CPE); Sporadic diarrhoea; Sporulation

Indexed keywords

CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS ENTEROTOXIN; ENTEROTOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC ASSOCIATED DIARRHEA; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; DIARRHEA; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SPOROGENESIS;

CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS;

EID: 84860902210     PISSN: 00794252     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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