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Comparative Experiments To Examine the Effects of Heating on Vegetative Cells and Spores of<i>Clostridium perfringens</i>Isolates Carrying Plasmid Genes versus Chromosomal Enterotoxin Genes
1 Aug 2000
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Abstract excerpt
Clostridium perfringens enterotoxin (CPE) is an important virulence factor for both C. perfringens type A food poisoning and several non-food-borne human gastrointestinal diseases. Recent studies have indicated that C. perfringens isolates associated with food poisoning carry a chromosomal cpe gene, while non-food-borne human gastrointestinal disease isolates carry a plasmid cpe gene. However, no explanation has...
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