A novel pore-forming toxin in type A Clostridium perfringens is associated with both fatal canine hemorrhagic gastroenteritis and fatal foal necrotizing enterocolitis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Gohari, Iman Mehdizadeh ^a   Parreira, Valeria R ^a   Nowell, Victoria J ^a   Nicholson, Vivian M ^a   Oliphant, Kaitlyn ^a   Prescott, John F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOSTRIDIUM TOXIN; COLLAGENASE; ENTEROTOXIN; HEMOLYSIN; LEUKOCIDIN; PHOSPHOLIPASE C; BACTERIAL TOXIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS TYPE A; COLA GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPA GENE; CPB GENE; CPE GENE; CYTOTOXICITY; DOG DISEASE; EMBRYO; ENTEROTOXEMIA; FEMALE; FOAL; GASTROENTERITIS; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SIMILARITY; HORSE DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; MOUSE; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NETE GENE; NETF GENE; NETG GENE; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PFOA GENE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PLASMID; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RAT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; CELL LINE; CHEMISTRY; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; DOG; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETICS; GENOME; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HORSE; MICROBIOLOGY; NUCLEAR PORE; PATHOGENICITY; VETERINARY;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; EQUIDAE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CELL LINE; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; DOGS; ENTEROCOLITIS, NECROTIZING; ENTEROTOXINS; GASTROENTERITIS; GENOME; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HORSES; NUCLEAR PORE;

EID: 84929456510     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0122684     Document Type: Article

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