Genome mapping of Clostridium perfringens strains with I-CeuI shows many virulence genes to be plasmid borne

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 251, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 720-726

  Katayama, Seiichi ^a   Dupuy, Bruno ^a   Daube, Georges ^b   China, Bernard ^b   Cole, Stewart T ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Enterotoxin; Gangrene; Genome mapping; Plasmids; Toxins

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR DNA; CLOSTRIDIUM TOXIN; ENDONUCLEASE; ENTEROTOXIN; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CHROMOSOME; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOD POISONING; GENE MAPPING; INTRON; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLAMYDOMONAS EUGAMETOS; CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS;

EID: 0029832177     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02174122     Document Type: Article

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