Prevalence of binary toxin positive Clostridium difficile in diarrhoeal humans in the absence of epidemic ribotype 027

Virulence of Clostridium difficile is primarily attributed to the large clostridial toxins A and B while the role of binary toxin (CDT) remains unclear. The prevalence of human strains of C. difficile possessing only CDT genes (A(−)B(−)CDT(+)) is generally low (< 5%), however, this genotype is co...

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Autores principales: McGovern, Alan M., Androga, Grace O., Knight, Daniel R., Watson, Mark W., Elliott, Briony, Foster, Niki F., Chang, Barbara J., Riley, Thomas V.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5678700/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29117204
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0187658

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5678700/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29117204
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0187658

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