Clostridium perfringens (C. perfringens) is a widespread bacterium found in the intestines of animals and humans, known for causing severe enteric diseases. It produces over 20 toxins, with the β-2 ...

Clostridium perfringens has been confirmed as the cause of more than 100 students falling ill at a university in New Zealand. Health New Zealand and the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) ...

Researchers from the Quadram Institute and University of East Anglia have identified what makes some strains of gut bacteria life-threatening in pre-term babies. The findings, now published in the ...

Epsilon toxin-producing strains of Clostridium perfringens live in the small intestine, and epsilon toxin is only produced briefly when the bacterium is in a growth phase, fitting with the relapsing ...

Perhaps most importantly, Rosenthal theorizes that introducing nutrients to bacteria could provide a new alternative treatment for animals and humans, alike. For example, the model organism ...

While we may think of some bacteria as friendly and others as pathogenic, the situation can become very complex. Not only can particular strains of the same microbial species be very different - like ...

ANTIOCH (KRON) — Officials say a bacteria is to blame for killing three people and sickening several others during a Thanksgiving dinner in Antioch. The bacteria Clostridium perfringens was found in ...

Maximum likelihood tree of the 228 C. perfringens strains harboring pCP13-like plasmids. The toxin genes are represented by sky blue squares, plc, cpb, etx, cpe, netB ...

Have you ever been so hungry that you become angry, otherwise known as “hangry?” New research by Adam Rosenthal, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, has found ...