Identification and Characterization of a New Enterotoxin Produced by Clostridium perfringens Isolated from Food Poisoning Outbreaks

• Daisuke Irikura ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Daisuke Irikura, Chie Monma

  Affiliation Division of Microbiology, National Institute of Health Sciences, Tokyo, Japan

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• Chie Monma ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Daisuke Irikura, Chie Monma

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Public Health, Tokyo, Japan

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• Yasunori Suzuki,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Public Health, Tokyo, Japan

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• Akiko Nakama,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Public Health, Tokyo, Japan

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• Akemi Kai,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Public Health, Tokyo, Japan

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• Aya Fukui-Miyazaki,

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, Research Institute of Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

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• Yasuhiko Horiguchi,

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, Research Institute of Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

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• Tomoya Yoshinari,

  Affiliation Division of Microbiology, National Institute of Health Sciences, Tokyo, Japan

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• Yoshiko Sugita-Konishi,

  Affiliations Division of Microbiology, National Institute of Health Sciences, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Food and Life Sciences, The Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Azabu University, Kanagawa, Japan

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• Yoichi Kamata

  * E-mail: ykamata@iwate-u.ac.jp

  Affiliations Division of Microbiology, National Institute of Health Sciences, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Iwate University, Morioka, Japan

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