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SUBMITTER: Mora ZV
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7552638 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mora Zuamí Villagrán-de la ZV Macías-Rodríguez María Esther ME Arratia-Quijada Jenny J Gonzalez-Torres Yesica Sughey YS Nuño Karla K Villarruel-López Angélica A
Animals : an open access journal from MDPI 20200922 9
<i>Clostridium perfringens</i> (Cp.) is the cause of human foodborne desease. Meat and poultry products are identified as the main source of infection for humans. Cp. can be found in poultry litter, feces, soil, dust, and healthy birds' intestinal contents. Cp. strains are known to secrete over 20 identified toxins and enzymes that could potentially be the principal virulence factors, capable of degrading mucin, affecting enterocytes, and the small intestine epithelium, involved in necrotic ente ...[more]