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Identification of Accessory Genome Regions in Poultry Clostridium perfringens Isolates Carrying the netB Plasmid
4 Jan 2013
Abstract excerpt
Necrotic enteritis (NE) is an economically important disease of poultry caused by certain Clostridium perfringens type A strains. NE pathogenesis involves the NetB toxin, which is encoded on a large conjugative plasmid within a 42-kb pathogenicity locus. Recent multilocus sequence type (MLST) studies have identified two predominant NE-associated clonal groups, suggesting that host genes are also involved in NE...
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