Clostridium difficile toxin as a confounding factor in enterovirus isolation.
A peculiar cytotoxic effect, occasionally encountered in the course of inoculating cell cultures with fecal specimens for routine enterovirus isolation attempts, was shown to be produced by Clostridium difficile toxin.
D000293:Adolescent; D000368:Aged; D000818:Animals; D001427:Bacterial Toxins / Q000494:pharmacology*; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003013:Clostridium; D003587:Cytomegalovirus / Q000302:isolation & purification; D004770:Enterovirus / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D005243:Feces / Q000382:microbiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007668:Kidney; D008168:Lung / Q000196:embryology; D008252:Macaca fascicularis; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013045:Species Specificity
D001427:Bacterial Toxins