Organization of the cpe locus in CPE-positive Clostridium perfringens type C and D isolates

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Li, Jihong ^a   Miyamoto, Kazuaki ^b   Sayeed, Sameera ^a,c   McClane, Bruce A ^a  

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

^b WAKAYAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c MARYWOOD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS ENTEROTOXIN; ENTEROTOXIN; TRANSPOSASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ENTEROTOXIN, CLOSTRIDIUM; PRIMER DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS TYPE A; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS TYPE C; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS TYPE D; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; BACTERIAL GENE; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS;

BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; DNA PRIMERS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENTEROTOXINS; GENES, BACTERIAL; OPEN READING FRAMES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH;

EID: 77956210938     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0010932     Document Type: Article

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