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SUBMITTER: Marvaud JC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6734109 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
New microbes and new infections 20190816
Pathogenesis of <i>Clostridium difficile</i> has been linked to production of toxins, including the large toxins A and B as well as the binary toxin CDT. Until recently, toxin A was only found in combination in clinical strains with the toxin B, unlike toxin B or CDT, which were found alone in toxigenic variants. New toxigenic variants of <i>C. difficile</i> detected in our laboratory from patients with diarrhoea or severe colitis, including a variant producing only toxin A, were tested for viru ...[more]