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PCR detection and prevalence of alpha-, beta-, beta 2-, epsilon-, iota- and enterotoxin genes in Clostridium perfringens isolated from lambs with clostridial dysentery.
Veterinary microbiology - 3 Sept 2001
Gkiourtzidis K, Frey J, Bourtzi-Hatzopoulou E, Iliadis N, Sarris K
Abstract excerpt
Clostridium perfringens isolated from lambs with dysentery (n=117) were analysed by a DNA amplification technique, the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), in order to determine the prevalence of the alpha-, beta-, beta 2-, epsilon-, iota- and enterotoxin genes. The most prevalent toxin type of C. perfringens found was type B, containing the alpha-, beta-, and epsilon-toxin genes, representing 46% of the cases with...
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