PCR detection and prevalence of α-, β-, β2-, ε-, ι- and enterotoxin genes in Clostridium perfringens isolated from lambs with clostridial dysentery

Veterinary Microbiology

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 39-43

  Gkiourtzidis, K ^a   Frey, J ^b   Bourtzi Hatzopoulou, E ^a   Iliadis, N ^a   Sarris, K ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Clostridium perfringens; Gene typing; PCR; Toxin genes

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOXIN; CLOSTRIDIUM TOXIN; ENTEROTOXIN; PROTEINASE; PROTOXIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE RIBOSYLATION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DYSENTERY; GENE; GREECE; INTESTINE NECROSIS; LAMB; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECUMBENCY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TOXEMIA; TOXIN ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DYSENTERY; ENTEROTOXINS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GREECE; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES;

ANIMALIA; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 0035801996     PISSN: 03781135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1135(01)00327-3     Document Type: Article

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