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Recent Insights into Clostridium perfringens Beta-Toxin

Clostridium perfringens beta-toxin is a key mediator of necrotizing enterocolitis and enterotoxemia. It is a pore-forming toxin (PFT) that exerts cytotoxic effect. Experimental investigation using piglet and rabbit intestinal loop models and a mouse infection model apparently showed that beta-toxin...

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Autores principales: Nagahama, Masahiro, Ochi, Sadayuki, Oda, Masataka, Miyamoto, Kazuaki, Takehara, Masaya, Kobayashi, Keiko
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4344631/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25654787
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/toxins7020396