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The prevalence and polymorphisms of zonula occluden toxin gene in multiple Campylobacter concisus strains isolated from saliva of patients with inflammatory bowel disease and controls.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2013
Mahendran Vikneswari, Tan Ye Sing, Riordan Stephen M, Grimm Michael C, Day Andrew S, Lemberg Daniel A, Octavia Sophie, Lan Ruiting, Zhang Li
Abstract excerpt
Campylobacterconcisus is an oral bacterium. A number of studies detected a significantly higher prevalence of C. concisus in the intestinal tract of patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) as compared to controls. The prevalence of zonula occluden toxin (zot) gene, which encodes a toxin kn...
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