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Dissecting the contributions of Clostridium perfringens type C toxins to lethality in the mouse intravenous injection model.
Infection and immunity - 1 Sept 2006
Fisher Derek J, Fernandez-Miyakawa Mariano E, Sayeed Sameera, Poon Rachael, Adams Victoria, Rood Julian I, Uzal Francisco A, McClane Bruce A
Abstract excerpt
The gram-positive anaerobe Clostridium perfringens produces a large arsenal of toxins that are responsible for histotoxic and enteric infections, including enterotoxemias, in humans and domestic animals. C. perfringens type C isolates, which cause rapidly fatal diseases in domestic animals and enteritis necroticans in humans, contain the genes for alpha toxin (plc), perfringolysin O (pfoA), beta toxin (cpb), and...
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