Prevalence of enterotoxigenic Clostridium perfringens in meats in San Luis, Argentina

Anaerobe

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 253-258

  Stagnitta, Patricia Virginia ^a   Micalizzi, Blas ^a   De Guzmán, Ana María Stefanini ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SAN LUIS   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Clostridium perfringens; Enterotoxigenic; Meats

Indexed keywords

ENTEROTOXIN;

AGGLUTINATION TEST; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; FOOD ANALYSIS; MEAT; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOXIN SYNTHESIS;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS;

EID: 0036824183     PISSN: 10759964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anae.2002.0433     Document Type: Article

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