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SUBMITTER: Wijesinghe RU
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4475883 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wijesinghe Rasanthi U RU Oster Ryan J RJ Haack Sheridan K SK Fogarty Lisa R LR Tucker Taaja R TR Riley Stephen C SC
Applied and environmental microbiology 20150417 13
Clostridium botulinum type E toxin is responsible for extensive mortality of birds and fish in the Great Lakes. The C. botulinum bontE gene that produces the type E toxin was amplified with quantitative PCR from 150 sloughed algal samples (primarily Cladophora species) collected during summer 2012 from 10 Great Lakes beaches in five states; concurrently, 74 sediment and 37 water samples from four sites were also analyzed. The bontE gene concentration in algae was significantly higher than in wat ...[more]