Identification and Characterization of a New Enterotoxin Produced by Clostridium perfringens Isolated from Food Poisoning Outbreaks.

Identification and Characterization of a New Enterotoxin Produced by Clostridium perfringens Isolated from Food Poisoning Outbreaks.

There is a strain of Clostridium perfringens, W5052, which does not produce a known enterotoxin. We herein report that the strain W5052 expressed a homologue of the iota-like toxin components sa and sb of C. spiroforme, named Clostridium perfringens iota-like enterotoxin, CPILE-a and CPILE-b, respec...

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Main Authors: Daisuke Irikura, Chie Monma, Yasunori Suzuki, Akiko Nakama, Akemi Kai, Aya Fukui-Miyazaki, Yasuhiko Horiguchi, Tomoya Yoshinari, Yoshiko Sugita-Konishi, Yoichi Kamata
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0138183

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https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0138183

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