Published in J Clin Microbiol on March 01, 1986
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Immunoblots and plasmid fingerprints compared with serotyping and polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis for typing Clostridium difficile. J Clin Microbiol (1988) 1.93
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Commercial latex agglutination test for detection of Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea. J Clin Microbiol (1987) 1.53
Laboratory diagnosis of Clostridium difficile-associated gastrointestinal disease: comparison of a monoclonal antibody enzyme immunoassay for toxins A and B with a monoclonal antibody enzyme immunoassay for toxin A only and two cytotoxicity assays. J Clin Microbiol (1992) 1.49
Characterization of cross-reactive proteins detected by Culturette Brand Rapid Latex Test for Clostridium difficile. J Clin Microbiol (1988) 1.34
Evaluation of four commercially available enzyme immunoassays for laboratory diagnosis of Clostridium difficile-associated diseases. J Clin Microbiol (1993) 1.28
Evaluation of a latex agglutination test for Clostridium difficile in two nursing home outbreaks. J Clin Microbiol (1989) 1.20
Comparison of alcohol shock enrichment and selective enrichment for the isolation of Clostridium difficile. Epidemiol Infect (1987) 1.01
Suppression by Saccharomyces boulardii of toxigenic Clostridium difficile overgrowth after vancomycin treatment in hamsters. Antimicrob Agents Chemother (1987) 1.00
Evaluation of a commercial latex test for Clostridium difficile for reactivity with C. difficile and cross-reactions with other bacteria. J Clin Microbiol (1988) 0.95
Comparison of a dot immunobinding assay, latex agglutination, and cytotoxin assay for laboratory diagnosis of Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea. J Clin Microbiol (1990) 0.91
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Effects of Clostridium difficile toxins given intragastrically to animals. Infect Immun (1985) 5.44
Collaborative evaluation of a proposed reference dilution method of susceptibility testing of anaerobic bacteria. Antimicrob Agents Chemother (1979) 5.10
Biological activities of toxins A and B of Clostridium difficile. Infect Immun (1982) 4.62
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Nucleotide sequence of Clostridium difficile toxin B gene. Nucleic Acids Res (1990) 2.93
Cell surface binding site for Clostridium difficile enterotoxin: evidence for a glycoconjugate containing the sequence Gal alpha 1-3Gal beta 1-4GlcNAc. Infect Immun (1986) 2.89
Investigation of an outbreak of antibiotic-associated colitis by various typing methods. J Clin Microbiol (1982) 2.86
Arginine, a growth-limiting factor for Eubacterium lentum. J Bacteriol (1976) 2.67
Effects of the two toxins of Clostridium difficile in antibiotic-associated cecitis in hamsters. Infect Immun (1982) 2.65
Production by Salmonella typhimurium of 2,3-dihydroxybenzoylserine, and its stimulation of growth in human serum. J Infect Dis (1970) 2.62
Characterization of a toxin A-negative, toxin B-positive strain of Clostridium difficile. Infect Immun (1992) 2.49
Medium-dependent inhibition of Peptostreptococcus anaerobius by sodium polyanetholsulfonate in blood culture media. J Clin Microbiol (1976) 2.46
Monoclonal and specific polyclonal antibodies for immunoassay of Clostridium difficile toxin A. J Clin Microbiol (1985) 2.46
Production of antitoxins to two toxins of Clostridium difficile and immunological comparison of the toxins by cross-neutralization studies. Infect Immun (1982) 2.14
The enterotoxin of Bacteroides fragilis is a metalloprotease. Infect Immun (1995) 2.06
Characterization of toxins A and B of Clostridium difficile with monoclonal antibodies. Infect Immun (1986) 2.01
Effects of Clostridium difficile toxins A and B in rabbit small and large intestine in vivo and on cultured cells in vitro. Infect Immun (1988) 2.00
Purification and characterization of an enterotoxin from Bacteroides fragilis. Infect Immun (1992) 1.97
Entamoeba histolytica and Entamoeba dispar infection in children in Bangladesh. J Infect Dis (1997) 1.95
Differential effects of Clostridium difficile toxins on tissue-cultured cells. J Clin Microbiol (1982) 1.87
Resistance of some species of Clostridium to clindamycin. Antimicrob Agents Chemother (1973) 1.81
Effect of clavulanic Acid on anaerobic bacteria resistant to Beta-lactam antibiotics. Antimicrob Agents Chemother (1978) 1.78
In vivo protection of Fusobacterium necrophorum from penicillin by Bacteroides fragilis. Antimicrob Agents Chemother (1975) 1.78
Problems associated with counterimmunoelectrophoresis assays for detecting Clostridium difficile toxin. J Clin Microbiol (1982) 1.75
Chemotherapy of an experimental Fusobacterium (Sphaerophorus) necrophorum infection in mice. Antimicrob Agents Chemother (1974) 1.71
Multicenter evaluation of a new screening test that detects Clostridium difficile in fecal specimens. J Clin Microbiol (2004) 1.71
Identification of the latex test-reactive protein of Clostridium difficile as glutamate dehydrogenase. J Clin Microbiol (1991) 1.67
Protection against experimental pseudomembranous colitis in gnotobiotic mice by use of monoclonal antibodies against Clostridium difficile toxin A. Infect Immun (1991) 1.66
Deletions in the repeating sequences of the toxin A gene of toxin A-negative, toxin B-positive Clostridium difficile strains. FEMS Microbiol Lett (1999) 1.66
Fibrinolytic activity of oral anaerobic bacteria. Arch Oral Biol (1978) 1.65
Toxin A of Clostridium difficile is a potent cytotoxin. J Clin Microbiol (1990) 1.65
Use of semisolid agar from initiation of pure Bacteroides fragilis infection in mice. Infect Immun (1976) 1.64
Bacteroides fragilis enterotoxin modulates epithelial permeability and bacterial internalization by HT-29 enterocytes. Gastroenterology (1996) 1.63
Inhibition of Bacteroides fragilis on blood agar plates and reversal of inhibition by added hemin. J Clin Microbiol (1976) 1.63
Beta-Lactamase activity in strains of Bacteroides melaninogenicus and Bacteroides oralis. Antimicrob Agents Chemother (1977) 1.62
Laminarinase (beta-glucanase) activity in Bacteroides from the human colon. Appl Environ Microbiol (1977) 1.61
Proteolytic activity of the Bacteroides fragilis enterotoxin causes fluid secretion and intestinal damage in vivo. Infect Immun (1995) 1.59
Purification of Clostridium difficile toxin A by affinity chromatography on immobilized thyroglobulin. Infect Immun (1987) 1.57
Purification and characterization of Clostridium perfringens iota toxin: dependence on two nonlinked proteins for biological activity. Infect Immun (1986) 1.57
Requirement of heme for growth of Bacteroides fragilis. Appl Environ Microbiol (1977) 1.53
Clostridium difficile toxin A in infants. J Infect Dis (1983) 1.53
Toxin A from Clostridium difficile binds to rabbit erythrocyte glycolipids with terminal Gal alpha 1-3Gal beta 1-4GlcNAc sequences. Arch Biochem Biophys (1987) 1.51
Vaspar broth-disk procedure for antibiotic susceptibility testing of anaerobic bacteria. Antimicrob Agents Chemother (1980) 1.50
Molecular basis for the pathological actions of Clostridium perfringens iota toxin. Infect Immun (1987) 1.47
Comparison of Clostridium sordellii toxins HT and LT with toxins A and B of C. difficile. J Med Microbiol (1992) 1.47
The Bacteroides fragilis toxin fragilysin disrupts the paracellular barrier of epithelial cells. Infect Immun (1997) 1.46
Cytochrome spectrum of an obligate anaerobe, Eubacterium lentum. J Bacteriol (1976) 1.45
Bacteriophages of Bacteroides. Rev Infect Dis (1980) 1.44
Toxin A of Clostridium difficile binds to the human carbohydrate antigens I, X, and Y. Infect Immun (1991) 1.44
Clostridium perfringens iota toxin: synergism between two proteins. Toxicon (1986) 1.43
Passive immunization of hamsters against disease caused by Clostridium difficile by use of bovine immunoglobulin G concentrate. Infect Immun (1991) 1.42
Cholesterol-reducing bacterium from human feces. Appl Environ Microbiol (1977) 1.40
Purification and characterization of Clostridium sordellii hemorrhagic toxin and cross-reactivity with Clostridium difficile toxin A (enterotoxin). Infect Immun (1988) 1.40
Influence of pencillinase production by strains of Bacteroides melaninogenicus and Bacteriodes oralis on pencillin therapy of an experimental mixed anaerobic infection in mice. Arch Oral Biol (1976) 1.39
Cloning and characterization of the gene for the metalloprotease enterotoxin of Bacteroides fragilis. FEMS Microbiol Lett (1997) 1.36
Evaluation of formalin-inactivated Clostridium difficile vaccines administered by parenteral and mucosal routes of immunization in hamsters. Infect Immun (1995) 1.35
Characterization of cross-reactive proteins detected by Culturette Brand Rapid Latex Test for Clostridium difficile. J Clin Microbiol (1988) 1.34
Comparison of culture, cytotoxicity assays, and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for toxin A and toxin B in the diagnosis of Clostridium difficile-related enteric disease. Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis (1986) 1.34
Localization of two epitopes recognized by monoclonal antibody PCG-4 on Clostridium difficile toxin A. Infect Immun (1992) 1.32
Genetic characterization of toxin A-negative, toxin B-positive Clostridium difficile isolates by PCR. J Clin Microbiol (2000) 1.28
Susceptibility of anaerobic bacteria to sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim and routine susceptibility testing. Antimicrob Agents Chemother (1978) 1.26
Rabbit sucrase-isomaltase contains a functional intestinal receptor for Clostridium difficile toxin A. J Clin Invest (1996) 1.26
Importance of serratia protease in the pathogenesis of experimental Serratia marcescens pneumonia. Infect Immun (1983) 1.22
Infection and immunity mediated by the carbohydrate recognition domain of the Entamoeba histolytica Gal/GalNAc lectin. J Infect Dis (1999) 1.22
Isolation of auxotrophs of Bacteroides fragilis. Can J Microbiol (1978) 1.21
High-level expression of a heterologous protein in the milk of transgenic swine using the cDNA encoding human protein C. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (1992) 1.20
Positive regulation of Clostridium difficile toxins. Infect Immun (1997) 1.17
Bacteriocin production by strains of Bacteroides isolated from human feces and the role of these strains in the bacterial ecology of the colon. Antimicrob Agents Chemother (1977) 1.16
Mutagenesis of the Clostridium difficile toxin B gene and effect on cytotoxic activity. Microb Pathog (1994) 1.14
TechLab and alexon Giardia enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay kits detect cyst wall protein 1. J Clin Microbiol (1999) 1.13
Transcriptional analysis of the toxigenic element of Clostridium difficile. Microb Pathog (1997) 1.13
Role of Clostridium difficile toxins in disease. Gastroenterology (1987) 1.11
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Effect of high-fiber and high-oil diets on the fecal flora of swine. Appl Environ Microbiol (1987) 1.10
Production by Clostridium spiroforme of an iotalike toxin that possesses mono(ADP-ribosyl)transferase activity: identification of a novel class of ADP-ribosyltransferases. Infect Immun (1989) 1.09
Clostridium difficile toxin A induces the release of neutrophil chemotactic factors from rat peritoneal macrophages: role of interleukin-1beta, tumor necrosis factor alpha, and leukotrienes. Infect Immun (1997) 1.07