Identification of Novel Clostridium perfringens Type E Strains That Carry an Iota Toxin Plasmid with a Functional Enterotoxin Gene

• 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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• Natsuko Yumine,

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

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• Kanako Mimura,

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

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• Masahiro Nagahama,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tokushima Bunri University, Tokushima, 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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