Comparative experiments to examine the effects of heating on vegetative cells and spores of Clostridium perfringens isolates carrying plasmid genes versus chromosomal enterotoxin genes

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 66, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 3234-3240

  Sarker, M R ^a   Shivers, R P ^a   Sparks, S G ^a   Juneja, V K ^a   McClane, B A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTEROTOXIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL SPORE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CHROMOSOME IDENTIFICATION; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; FOOD POISONING; GENOTYPE; HEAT TOLERANCE; HEATING; NONHUMAN; PLASMID;

BLOTTING, WESTERN; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENTEROTOXINS; FOOD POISONING; HEAT; HUMANS; PLASMIDS; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SPORES, BACTERIAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0033862181     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.66.8.3234-3240.2000     Document Type: Article

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