Browsing Microbiología by Author "Papatheodorou, Panagiotis"
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Toxin B Variants from Clostridium difficile Strains VPI 10463 and NAP1/027 Share Similar Substrate Profile and Cellular Intoxication Kinetics but Use Different Host Cell Entry Factors
López Ureña, Diana; Orozco Aguilar, Josué; Chaves Madrigal, Yendry Pamela; Ramírez Mata, Andrea; Villalobos Jimenez, Amanda; Ost, Stefan; Quesada Gómez, Carlos; Rodríguez Sánchez, César; Papatheodorou, Panagiotis; Chaves Olarte, Esteban (2019)Clostridium difficile induces antibiotic-associated diarrhea due to the release of toxin A (TcdA) and toxin B (TcdB), the latter being its main virulence factor. The epidemic strain NAP1/027 has an increased virulence ...