Importance of Toxin A, Toxin B, and CDT in virulence of an epidemic Clostridium difficile strain

Sarah Kuehne; Mark M Collery; Michelle L Kelly; Stephen T Cartman; Alan Cockayne; Nigel P Minton

doi:10.1093/infdis/jit426

Importance of Toxin A, Toxin B, and CDT in virulence of an epidemic Clostridium difficile strain

Sarah Kuehne, Mark M Collery, Michelle L Kelly, Stephen T Cartman, Alan Cockayne, Nigel P Minton

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Abstract

Clostridium difficile infection is the main cause of healthcare-acquired diarrhea in the developed world. In addition to the main virulence factors toxin A and B, epidemic, PCR Ribotype 027 strains, such as R20291, produce a third toxin, CDT. To develop effective medical countermeasures, it is important to understand the importance of each toxin. Accordingly, we created all possible combinations of isogenic toxin mutants of R20291 and assessed their virulence. We demonstrated that either toxin A or toxin B alone can cause fulminant disease in the hamster infection model and present tantalizing data that C. difficile toxin may also contribute to virulence.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	83-86
Number of pages	4
Journal	The Journal of Infectious Diseases
Volume	209
Issue number	1
Early online date	8 Aug 2013
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jit426
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2014

Keywords

ADP Ribose Transferases
Animals
Bacterial Proteins
Bacterial Toxins
Cell Death
Clostridium Infections
Clostridium difficile
Cricetinae
Enterotoxins
Female
HT29 Cells
Humans
Mesocricetus
Virulence
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Clostridium difficile infection
TcdA
TcdB
pathogenesis
CDT

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