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Among the Clostridia of medical and veterinary interest, Clostridium perfringens has long been studied at the microbiological and biochemical levels. This important human pathogen produces a wide assortment of exotoxins that are believed to play a major role in pathogenesis and which provide the actual basis for the classification of the isolates in five serotypes, A to E (Finegold, 1977). Isolates of serotype A are predominantly associated with human disease and with gas gangrene of man and animals.
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Cole, S.T., Canard, B. (1993). Genome Mapping of Clostridium perfringens Type A Strains. In: Sebald, M. (eds) Genetics and Molecular Biology of Anaerobic Bacteria. Brock/Springer Series in Contemporary Bioscience. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-7087-5_18
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