Identification of epsilon toxin-producing Clostridium perfringens strains in American retail food
| Autor: | Libra B. Williams, Juan Sepulveda, Anthony Vartanian, Sam Bogdanov, Patricia Miraflor, Samantha B. Regan, Steffi Gaehde, Jennifer R. Linden, Noah Rubin, Sarah Shetty, Jake Moreh, Abigail Lustig, Zuha Anwar, Sylvia Haigh |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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0301 basic medicine
Meat Clostridium perfringens Toxin Bacterial Toxins 030106 microbiology Fishes Food Contamination Biology medicine.disease_cause Microbiology Poultry United States 03 medical and health sciences Infectious Diseases Seafood Retail food Genotype medicine Animals Cattle Identification (biology) Gene |
| Zdroj: | Anaerobe. 54:124-127 |
| ISSN: | 1075-9964 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.anaerobe.2018.08.008 |
| Popis: | Food samples (n = 216) from New York city were tested for the presence of C. perfringens via PCR for specific toxin genes. Thirty-four (16%) samples were positive for C. perfringens. Of these 34, 31 (91.2%) were type A or E, one (2.9%) was type B, and two (5.9%) were type D. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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