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Filtering by: Creator Banawas, Saeed S. Date issued sim 2016-05-09

New Insights into the Molecular Mechanism of Clostridium perfringens Spore Germination

Creator:

Banawas, Saeed S.

Abstract:

C. perfringens is a spore-forming, gram-positive, 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. Interestingly, these two major diseases are...

Resource Type:

Dissertation