Horizontal gene transfer converts non-toxigenic Clostridium difficile strains into toxin producers

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Brouwer, Michael S M ^a   Roberts, Adam P ^a   Hussain, Haitham ^a   Williams, Rachel J ^a   Allan, Elaine ^a   Mullany, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE TOXIN B;

BACTERIUM; CHROMOSOME; DIARRHEAL DISEASE; DISEASE TREATMENT; GENE TRANSFER; PATHOGENICITY; TOXIN; VIRULENCE;

ARTICLE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; TOXIN SYNTHESIS;

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CELL LINE; CELL SURVIVAL; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; ENTEROTOXINS; FIBROBLASTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS;

EID: 84886255455     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3601     Document Type: Article

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