Expansion of the Clostridium perfringens toxin-based typing scheme

• Published in: Anaerobe Vol. 53; pp. 5 - 10
• Main Authors: Rood, Julian I., Adams, Vicki, Lacey, Jake, Lyras, Dena, McClane, Bruce A., Melville, Stephen B., Moore, Robert J., Popoff, Michel R., Sarker, Mahfuzur R., Songer, J. Glenn, Uzal, Francisco A., Van Immerseel, Filip
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Elsevier Ltd 01.10.2018; Elsevier Masson
• Subjects: Animals; Bacterial Toxins/analysis; Bacterial Typing Techniques/methods; Bacteriology; Cell Behavior; Cellular Biology; Clostridium Infections/microbiology; Clostridium Infections/veterinary; Clostridium perfringens; Clostridium perfringens/classification; Clostridium perfringens/isolation & purification; Disease; Humans; Life Sciences; Microbiology and Parasitology; Pathogenesis; Subcellular Processes; Terminology; Toxinotyping; Toxins; Toxins; Toxinotyping; Terminology; Disease; Pathogenesis; Clostridium perfringens

Clostridium perfringens causes many different histotoxic and enterotoxic diseases in humans and animals as a result of its ability to produce potent protein toxins, many of which are extracellular. The current scheme for the classification of isolates was finalized in the 1960s and is based on their...