Isolation of Enterotoxin - positive Strains of Clostridium perfringens Type A in Korea
Journal of the Korean Society for Microbiology
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: 49-54, 1998.
Artigo
em Coreano
| WPRIM
| ID: wpr-89388
ABSTRACT
Clostridium perfringens is an anaerobe responsible for a wide range of diseases in animals and humans. Symptoms associated with C. perfringens food poisoning are caused by enterotoxin expressed only during sporulation of C. perfringens. It has been known that only 6% of global C. perfringens isolates carry the enterotoxin gene. We found 2 strains of enterotoxigenic C. perfringens out of 33 strains isolated from various sources in Korea using PCR. It was also found that these two strains were both type A that were strongly associated with food poisoning by checking the presence of four major lethal toxins (a-, B-, e-, l-toxin) using PCR. These results suggest that foodborne illness caused by C. perfringens may be common in Korea and that public education is necessary to prevent contamination of foods by this organism.
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Assunto principal:
Reação em Cadeia da Polimerase
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Clostridium
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Clostridium perfringens
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Educação
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Enterotoxinas
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Doenças Transmitidas por Alimentos
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Coreia (Geográfico)
Limite:
Animais
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Humanos
País/Região como assunto:
Ásia
Idioma:
Coreano
Revista:
Journal of the Korean Society for Microbiology
Ano de publicação:
1998
Tipo de documento:
Artigo
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