Clostridium perfringens is a pathogenic anaerobic bacterium able to produce more than 17 toxins, allowing C. perfringins to cause a wide variety of diseases in humans and animals. Beside toxins production, C. perfringens able to form a highly resistance spores can survive in the environments for years. These spores are...
The enterotoxin-producing Clostridium perfringens type A isolates are responsible for the third most common foodborne illness in the United States and can also cause non-foodborne human gastrointestinal (GI) diseases such as antibiotic- associated and sporadic diarrheas. Three important factors contribute to the ability of C. perfringens to cause GI diseases,...
C. perfringens is a Gram-positive, spore-forming, anaerobic pathogenic
bacterium capable of causing a wide variety of diseases in both humans and animals.
However, the two most common illnesses in humans are C. perfringens type A food
poisoning (FP) and non-food-borne (NFB) gastrointestinal (GI) illnesses . These two
major diseases are...