The binary toxin CDT enhances Clostridium difficile virulence by suppressing protective colonic eosinophilia

Nature Microbiology

Volumn 1, Issue 8, 2016, Pages

  Cowardin, Carrie A ^a   Buonomo, Erica L ^a   Saleh, Mahmoud M ^a   Wilson, Madeline G ^a   Burgess, Stacey L ^a   Kuehne, Sarah A ^b   Schwan, Carsten ^c   Eichhoff, Anna M ^d   Koch Nolte, Friedrich ^d   Lyras, Dena ^e   Aktories, Klaus ^c   Minton, Nigel P ^b   Petri, William A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^e MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN-SPECIFIC ADP-RIBOSYLTRANSFERASE, CLOSTRIDIUM; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE RIBOSYLTRANSFERASE; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTION; COLON; DISEASE MODEL; EOSINOPHIL; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOUSE; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; PEPTOCLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; RIBOTYPING;

ADP RIBOSE TRANSFERASES; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; COLON; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EOSINOPHILS; MICE; RIBOTYPING; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84991224015     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20585276     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmicrobiol.2016.108     Document Type: Article

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