Identification of novel clostridium perfringens type E strains that carry an iota toxin plasmid with a functional enterotoxin gene

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Miyamoto, Kazuaki ^a   Yumine, Natsuko ^a   Mimura, Kanako ^a   Nagahama, Masahiro ^b   Li, Jihong ^c   McClane, Bruce A ^c   Akimoto, Shigeru ^a  

^a WAKAYAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKUSHIMA BUNRI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA (CYTOSINE 5) METHYLTRANSFERASE; ENTEROTOXIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR; BACTERIAL TOXIN; ENTEROTOXIN, CLOSTRIDIUM; IOTA TOXIN, CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE RIBOSYLTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS ENTEROTOXIN GENE; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS TYPE E; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DISRUPTION; GENOTYPE; IOTA TOXIN GENE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS;

CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS;

ADP RIBOSE TRANSFERASES; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; ENTEROTOXINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 79957876078     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0020376     Document Type: Article

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