Four foodborne disease outbreaks caused by a new type of enterotoxin-producing Clostridium perfringens

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 859-867

  Monma, Chie ^a   Hatakeyama, Kaoru ^a   Obata, Hiromi ^a   Yokoyama, Keiko ^a   Konishi, Noriko ^a   Itoh, Takeshi ^a,b   Kai, Akemi ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

^b Tokyo Kenbikyoin Foundation   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTEROTOXIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BROTH DILUTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; CYTOTOXICITY TEST; DIARRHEA; ENTEROTOXIN PRODUCING CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; EPIDEMIC; FECES ANALYSIS; FERMENTATION; FEVER; FOOD; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD POISONING; HUMAN; INCUBATION TIME; JAPAN; MALAISE; MEAT; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NAUSEA; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PH; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEROTYPE; SPOROGENESIS; STEWED LAMB; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TEMPERATURE; TENESMUS; TOXIN ANALYSIS; VOMITING; ANIMAL; CELL LINE; CHEMISTRY; CHLOROCEBUS AETHIOPS; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECTS; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; FOODBORNE DISEASES; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOUSE; PROTEIN STABILITY;

CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENTEROTOXINS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; FOODBORNE DISEASES; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MALE; MICE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PROTEIN STABILITY; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84923342175     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02859-14     Document Type: Article

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