Organization of the cpe locus in CPE-positive clostridium perfringens type C and D isolates.

Clostridium perfringens enterotoxin (encoded by the cpe gene) contributes to several important human, and possibly veterinary, enteric diseases. The current study investigated whether cpe locus organization in type C or D isolates resembles one of the three (one chromosomal and two plasmid-borne) cp...

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Main Authors: Jihong Li, Kazuaki Miyamoto, Sameera Sayeed, Bruce A McClane
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-06-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2880595?pdf=render