Genetic diversity of Clostridium perfringens type A isolates from animals, food poisoning outbreaks and sludge

BMC Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Johansson, Anders ^a,b   Aspan, Anna ^a   Bagge, Elisabeth ^a   Båverud, Viveca ^a   Engström, Björn E ^a   Johansson, Karl Erik ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN; ENTEROTOXIN; PROTEIN CPB2; PROTEIN CPE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS TYPE A; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; FOOD POISONING; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HORSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SHEEP; SLUDGE; SWINE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENTEROTOXINS; FOODBORNE DISEASES; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEWAGE;

ANIMALIA; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS A; EQUUS CABALLUS; OVIS ARIES; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 33746282762     PISSN: 14712180     EISSN: 14712180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2180-6-47     Document Type: Article

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