A wide variety of clostridium perfringens type a food-borne isolates that carry a chromosomal cpe gene belong to one multilocus sequence typing cluster

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 19, 2012, Pages 7060-7068

  Xiao, Yinghua ^a,b,c   Wagendorp, Arjen ^a,b   Moezelaar, Roy ^b   Abee, Tjakko ^b,c   Wells Bennik, Marjon H J ^a,b  

^a NIZO FOOD RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b TOP INSTITUTE FOOD AND NUTRITION   (Netherlands)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOMAL LOCATION; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY AUTHORITY; ENTEROTOXIN; FOOD ISOLATES; FOOD POISONING; GAS GANGRENE; GENOME SEQUENCES; HEALTHY INDIVIDUALS; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NETHERLANDS; PCR ANALYSIS;

CHROMOSOMES; CLOSTRIDIUM; CONSUMER PRODUCTS; GENE ENCODING; SURVEYS;

FOOD SAFETY;

BACTERIAL DNA; ENTEROTOXIN;

BACTERIUM; CHROMOSOME; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA SET; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; GENOME; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESERVOIR; SPECIALIZATION; TOXIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FOOD CONTROL; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NETHERLANDS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID;

CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENTEROTOXINS; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; GENOTYPE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NETHERLANDS; PLASMIDS;

NETHERLANDS;

CLOSTRIDIA; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS A;

EID: 84868313317     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01486-12     Document Type: Article

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