Identification of novel pathogenicity loci in Clostridium perfringens strains that cause Avian necrotic enteritis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Lepp, Dion ^a,b   Roxas, Bryan ^c   Parreira, Valeria R ^a   Marri, Pradeep R ^c   Rosey, Everett L ^d   Gong, Joshua ^b   Songer, J Glenn ^c   Vedantam, Gayatri ^c,e   Prescott, John F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d PFIZER INC   (United States)

^e SOUTHERN ARIZONA VA HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; BACITRACIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; LEUKOCIDIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; TEICOPLANIN; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHICKEN; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NECROTIZING ENTERITIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PATHOGENESIS; PLASMID; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENTERITIS; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC LOCI; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC ISLANDS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; POULTRY DISEASES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

AVES; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS;

EID: 77956511198     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0010795     Document Type: Article

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