Colonisation factor cd0873, an attractive oral vaccine candidate against clostridioides difficile
(2021)
Journal Article
Karyal, C., Hughes, J., Kelly, M. L., Cockayne, A., Luckett, J. C., Kaye, P. V., …Griffin, R. (2021). Colonisation factor cd0873, an attractive oral vaccine candidate against clostridioides difficile. Microorganisms, 9(2), Article 306. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms9020306
Clostridioides difficile is the main cause of health-care-associated infectious diarrhoea. Toxins, TcdA and TcdB, secreted by this bacterium damage colonic epithelial cells and in severe cases this culminates in pseudomembranous colitis, toxic megaco... Read More about Colonisation factor cd0873, an attractive oral vaccine candidate against clostridioides difficile.