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A toxin contest

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  • Jimmy D. Ballard

    (University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73104, USA. jimmy-ballard@ouhsc.edu)

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The bacterium Clostridium difficile can cause life-threatening human disease. The question is which of the organism's two toxins is the more crucial to its pathogenicity. The answer is one or the other, or both. See Letter p.711

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  • Jimmy D. Ballard, 2010. "A toxin contest," Nature, Nature, vol. 467(7316), pages 665-666, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:467:y:2010:i:7316:d:10.1038_467665a
    DOI: 10.1038/467665a
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