Pharmaceutical Microbiology

Pharmaceutical Microbiology

Cytotoxin Produced by 'Hypervirulent' Intestinal Flora

do Pharmaceutical Microbiology de timsandle@btinternet.com (Tim Sandle)

A research group led by Freiburg pharmacologist Prof. Dr. Klaus Aktories and their American colleagues have discovered the cell receptor for the toxin CDT of the bacterium Clostridium difficile. These germs often cause an inflammation of the colon in patients who have recently received a treatment with antibiotics.