Clostridium difficile toxin B is more potent than toxin A in damaging human colonic epithelium in vitro.

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Published in J Clin Invest on May 01, 1995

Authors

M Riegler1, R Sedivy, C Pothoulakis, G Hamilton, J Zacherl, G Bischof, E Cosentini, W Feil, R Schiessel, J T LaMont

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1: University Clinic of Surgery, Vienna, Austria.

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