Production of Antitoxins to Two Toxins of Clostridium difficile and Immunological Comparison of the Toxins by Cross-Neutralization Studies
- 1 January 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Infection and Immunity
- Vol. 35 (1) , 374-376
- https://doi.org/10.1128/iai.35.1.374-376.1982
Abstract
We prepared antitoxins specific for each of two toxins of Clostridium difficile and used these to demonstrate that the toxins are immunologically distinct.This publication has 13 references indexed in Scilit:
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