Prevalence and characterization of enterotoxin gene-carrying Clostridium perfringens isolates from retail meat products in Japan

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 17, 2008, Pages 5366-5372

  Miki, Yasuhiro ^a   Miyamoto, Kazuaki ^a   Kaneko Hirano, Ikuko ^a   Fujiuchi, Kanako ^a   Akimoto, Shigeru ^a  

^a WAKAYAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION; HEAT RESISTANCE; TURBULENT FLOW;

CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; FOOD POISONING; MEAT PRODUCTS;

SALES;

ENTEROTOXIN;

BACTERIAL DISEASE; BACTERIUM; CHROMOSOME; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM DISORDER; DISEASE PREVALENCE; FOOD QUALITY; GENE; HEATING; MEAT; PLASMID; SURVIVAL;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL SPORE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; JAPAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; RAW MEAT;

CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENTEROTOXINS; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; FOOD POISONING; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; HEAT; HUMANS; JAPAN; MEAT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPORES, BACTERIAL; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

ANIMALIA; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS;

EID: 50949099718     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00783-08     Document Type: Article

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