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Editorial
. 2022 Apr 6:13:897612.
doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.897612. eCollection 2022.

Editorial: The Deadly Secrets of C. difficile-Insights Into Host-Pathogen Interaction

Meina Neumann-Schaal  1   2 , Uwe Groß  3 , Ingo Just  4 , Dieter Jahn  2   5
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Editorial: The Deadly Secrets of C. difficile-Insights Into Host-Pathogen Interaction

Meina Neumann-Schaal et al. Front Microbiol. .
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Keywords: Clostridioides (Clostridium) difficile; Clostridium difficile infection (CDI); anaerobic metabolism; binary toxin CDT; toxins A and B Clostridium difficile.

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