| Literature DB >> 18003798 |
Päivi Lahti1, Annamari Heikinheimo, Tuula Johansson, Hannu Korkeala.
Abstract
The prevalences of various genotypes of enterotoxin gene-carrying (cpe-positive) Clostridium perfringens type A in 24 different food poisoning outbreaks were 75% (chromosomal IS1470-cpe), 21% (plasmid-borne IS1470-like-cpe), and 4% (plasmid-borne IS1151-cpe). These results show that C. perfringens type A carrying the plasmid-borne cpe is a common cause of food poisoning.Entities:
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Year: 2007 PMID: 18003798 PMCID: PMC2224277 DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01650-07
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Clin Microbiol ISSN: 0095-1137 Impact factor: 5.948