Comparative Effects of Osmotic, Sodium Nitrite-Induced, and pH-Induced Stress on Growth and Survival of Clostridium perfringens Type A Isolates Carrying …

J Li, BA McClane - Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 2006 - Am Soc Microbiol
About 1 to 2% of Clostridium perfringens isolates carry the enterotoxin gene (cpe) necessary
for causing C. perfringens type A food poisoning. While the cpe gene can be either …

Further Comparison of Temperature Effects on Growth and Survival of Clostridium perfringens Type A Isolates Carrying a Chromosomal or Plasmid-Borne Enterotoxin …

J Li, BA McClane - Applied and environmental microbiology, 2006 - Am Soc Microbiol
Clostridium perfringens type A isolates can carry the enterotoxin gene (cpe) on either their
chromosome or a plasmid, but food poisoning isolates usually have a chromosomal cpe …

Comparative Experiments To Examine the Effects of Heating on Vegetative Cells and Spores of Clostridium perfringens Isolates Carrying Plasmid Genes versus …

MR Sarker, RP Shivers, SG Sparks… - Applied and …, 2000 - Am Soc Microbiol
Clostridium perfringens enterotoxin (CPE) is an important virulence factor for both C.
perfringens type A food poisoning and several non-food-borne human gastrointestinal …

The Identification and Characterization of Clostridium perfringens by Real-Time PCR, Location of Enterotoxin Gene, and Heat Resistance

KA Grant, S Kenyon, I Nwafor, J Plowman… - Foodborne …, 2008 - liebertpub.com
Clostridium perfringens carrying the enterotoxin gene is an important cause of both
foodborne and non-foodborne diarrheal disease. Rapid identification of isolates carrying the …

Factors Contributing to Heat Resistance of Clostridium perfringens Endospores

B Orsburn, SB Melville, DL Popham - Applied and environmental …, 2008 - Am Soc Microbiol
The endospores formed by strains of type A Clostridium perfringens that produce the C.
perfringens enterotoxin (CPE) are known to be more resistant to heat and cold than strains …

Regulated expression of Clostridium perfringens enterotoxin in naturally cpe-negative type A, B, and C isolates of C. perfringens

JR Czeczulin, RE Collie, BA McClane - Infection and immunity, 1996 - Am Soc Microbiol
Clostridium perfringens enterotoxin (CPE), the virulence factor responsible for symptoms
associated with C. perfringens type A food poisoning, is produced by enterotoxigenic C …

Inorganic Phosphate and Sodium Ions Are Cogerminants for Spores of Clostridium perfringens Type A Food Poisoning-Related Isolates

D Paredes-Sabja, P Udompijitkul… - Applied and …, 2009 - Am Soc Microbiol
Clostridium perfringens type A isolates carrying a chromosomal copy of the enterotoxin (cpe)
gene are involved in the majority of food poisoning (FP) outbreaks, while type A isolates …

Organization of the Plasmid cpe Locus in Clostridium perfringens Type A Isolates

K Miyamoto, G Chakrabarti, Y Morino… - Infection and …, 2002 - Am Soc Microbiol
Clostridium perfringens type A isolates causing food poisoning have a chromosomal
enterotoxin gene (cpe), while C. perfringens type A isolates responsible for non-food-borne …

Clostridium perfringens and foodborne infections

S Brynestad, PE Granum - International journal of food microbiology, 2002 - Elsevier
Clostridium perfringens type A food poisoning is one of the more common in the
industrialised world. This bacterium is also responsible for the rare but severe food borne …

Prevalence of the enterotoxin gene and clonality of Clostridium perfringens strains associated with food-poisoning outbreaks

J Ridell, J Björkroth, H Eisgrűber, B Schalch… - Journal of Food …, 1998 - Elsevier
The prevalence of the enterotoxin gene in a well-characterized collection of 71 Clostridium
perfringens strains from 36 separate food-poisoning cases or outbreaks was analyzed with …