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Characterization of cytolethal distending toxin of campylobacter species isolated from captive macaque monkeys.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Feb 2005
Dassanayake Rohana P, Zhou You, Hinkley Susanne, Stryker Cynthia J, Plauche Gail, Borda Juan T, Sestak Karol, Duhamel Gerald E
Abstract excerpt
An association between certain Campylobacter species and enterocolitis in humans and nonhuman primates is well established, but the association between cytolethal distending toxin and disease is incompletely understood. The purpose of the present study was to examine Campylobacter species isolated from captive conventionally raised macaque monkeys for the presence of the cdtB gene and for cytolethal distending...
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