Toxin B is essential for virulence of Clostridium difficile.

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Published in Nature on March 01, 2009

Authors

Dena Lyras1, Jennifer R O'Connor, Pauline M Howarth, Susan P Sambol, Glen P Carter, Tongted Phumoonna, Rachael Poon, Vicki Adams, Gayatri Vedantam, Stuart Johnson, Dale N Gerding, Julian I Rood

Author Affiliations

1: Australian Bacterial Pathogenesis Program, Department of Microbiology, Monash University, Victoria 3800, Australia.

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