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CodY Promotes Sporulation and Enterotoxin Production by Clostridium perfringens Type A Strain SM101.
Infection and immunity - 1 Mar 2017
Li Jihong, Freedman John C, Evans Daniel R, McClane Bruce A
Abstract excerpt
Clostridium perfringens type D strains cause enterotoxemia and enteritis in livestock via epsilon toxin production. In type D strain CN3718, CodY was previously shown to increase the level of epsilon toxin production and repress sporulation. C. perfringens type A strains producing C. perfringens enterotoxin (CPE) cause human food poisoning and antibiotic-associated diarrhea. Sporulation is critical for C....
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