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Identification of novel pathogenicity loci in Clostridium perfringens strains that cause avian necrotic enteritis.
PloS one - 24 May 2010
Lepp Dion, Roxas Bryan, Parreira Valeria R, Marri Pradeep R, Rosey Everett L, Gong Joshua, Songer J Glenn, Vedantam Gayatri, Prescott John F
Abstract excerpt
Type A Clostridium perfringens causes poultry necrotic enteritis (NE), an enteric disease of considerable economic importance, yet can also exist as a member of the normal intestinal microbiota. A recently discovered pore-forming toxin, NetB, is associated with pathogenesis in most, but not all,...
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