Two Clostridium perfringens Type E Isolates in France

Laure Diancourt (1) , Jean Sautereau (1) , Alexis Criscuolo (2) , Michel R. Popoff (3)

1 CNR - Centre National de Référence des Bactéries Anaérobies et Botulisme - National Reference Center Anaerobic Bacteria and Botulism
2 Hub Bioinformatique et Biostatistique - Bioinformatics and Biostatistics HUB
3 Toxines bactériennes - Bacterial Toxins

Clostridium perfringens type E is a less frequently isolated C. perfringens type and has not previously been reported in France. We have characterized two recent type E isolates, C. perfringens 508.17 from the intestinal content of a calf that died of enterotoxemia, and 515.17 from the stool of a 60-year-old woman, subsequent to food poisoning, which contained the plasmid pCPPB-1 with variant iota toxin and C. perfringens enterotoxin genes.

Keywords: C. perfringens enterotoxin; Clostridium perfringens; enterotoxemia; food poisoning; iota toxin

Domains: Life Sciences [q-bio]; Life Sciences [q-bio]; Microbiology and Parasitology; Life Sciences [q-bio]; Microbiology and Parasitology; Bacteriology; Life Sciences [q-bio]; Cellular Biology; Life Sciences [q-bio]; Cellular Biology; Subcellular Processes [q-bio.SC]; Life Sciences [q-bio]; Cellular Biology; Cell Behavior [q-bio.CB]

Laure Diancourt, Jean Sautereau, Alexis Criscuolo, Michel R. Popoff. Two Clostridium perfringens Type E Isolates in France. Toxins, 2019, 11 (3), pp.E138. ⟨10.3390/toxins11030138⟩. ⟨pasteur-02448780⟩