The role of toxin A and toxin B in Clostridium difficile-associated disease

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Recently, we constructed and characterized isogenic tcdA and tcdB mutants of a virulent Clostridium difficile strain and used a hamster model of disease to demonstrate that toxin B, not toxin A, is essential for virulence of this emerging pathogen. Earlier studies had shown that purified toxin A alone was able to induce C. difficile disease pathology and that purified toxin B was not effective unless it was...

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