Both, toxin A and toxin B, are important inClostridium difficileinfection.
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Nontoxigenic strains of Clostridium difficile lack the genes for both toxin A and toxin B.
A total of 39 toxigenic and 20 nontoxigenic strains of Clostridium difficile were tested for the presence of either toxin A or toxin B by the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). All toxigenic strains produced cytotoxin as assayed by using highly sensitive fetal lung fibroblasts and were positive for toxin A as well as toxin B in the PCR assay. All nontoxigenic strains failed to produce toxin and w...
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عنوان ژورنال: Gut Microbes
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1949-0976,1949-0984
DOI: 10.4161/gmic.2.4.16109