The bacterium Clostridium difficile can cause life-threatening human disease. The question is which of the organism's two toxins is the more crucial to its pathogenicity. The answer is one or the other, or both. See Letter p.711
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Ballard, J. A toxin contest. Nature 467, 665–666 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/467665a
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