Importance of toxin a, toxin b, and cdt in virulence of an epidemic clostridium difficile strain

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 209, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 83-86

  Kuehne, Sarah A ^a   Collery, Mark M ^a   Kelly, Michelle L ^a   Cartman, Stephen T ^a   Cockayne, Alan ^a   Minton, Nigel P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CDT; Clostridium difficile infection; pathogenesis; TcdA; TcdB

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE TOXIN A; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE TOXIN B; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE TOXIN CDT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HAMSTER MODEL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOTYPING;

CDT; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; PATHOGENESIS; TCDA; TCDB;

ADP RIBOSE TRANSFERASES; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CELL DEATH; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; CRICETINAE; ENTEROTOXINS; FEMALE; HT29 CELLS; HUMANS; MESOCRICETUS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84891353755     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jit426     Document Type: Article

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