Enterotoxigenic Clostridium perfringens: Detection and identification

Microbes and Environments

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 343-349

  Miyamoto, Kazuaki ^a   Li, Jihong ^b   McClane, Bruce A ^b  

^a WAKAYAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

Cpe genotyping assay; MLST; Molecular assays

Indexed keywords

ENTEROTOXIN; ENTEROTOXIN, CLOSTRIDIUM;

BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL SPORE; CLASSIFICATION; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTION; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; FOOD POISONING; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; REVIEW;

CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; ENTEROTOXINS; FOODBORNE DISEASES; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; SPORES, BACTERIAL;

CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS;

EID: 84871107286     PISSN: 13426311     EISSN: 13474405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1264/jsme2.ME12002     Document Type: Review

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