Genetic Characterization of Type A Enterotoxigenic Clostridium perfringens Strains

• Agi Deguchi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Agi Deguchi, Kazuaki Miyamoto

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Wakayama Medical University School of Medicine, Wakayama, Japan

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• Kazuaki Miyamoto ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Agi Deguchi, Kazuaki Miyamoto

  * E-mail: kazuaki@wakayama-med.ac.jp

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Wakayama Medical University School of Medicine, Wakayama, Japan

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• Tomomi Kuwahara,

  Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, The University of Tokushima Faculty of Medicine, Tokushima, Japan

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• Yasuhiro Miki,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Wakayama Medical University School of Medicine, Wakayama, Japan

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• Ikuko Kaneko,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Wakayama Medical University School of Medicine, Wakayama, Japan

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• Jihong Li,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Bruce A. McClane,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Shigeru Akimoto

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Wakayama Medical University School of Medicine, Wakayama, Japan

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