Volume 12, Number 11—November 2006
Research
Humans as Reservoir for Enterotoxin Gene–carrying Clostridium perfringens Type A
Table 3
Cytotoxicity test on Vero cells to determine the production of CPE by cpe+ C. perfringens strains obtained from healthy persons
Isolate | MRP* | CPE† | cpe genotype | cpe location |
CPI 18–3 | 1 | + | IS1470-like-cpe | Plasmid |
CPI 18–2 | 2 | NS | IS1470-like-cpe | Plasmid |
CPI 26K-R3p | 5 | + | IS1151-cpe | Plasmid |
CPI 39–1b, CPI 39K-7 | 6 | + | IS1470-like-cpe | Plasmid |
CPI 44K-R3, CPI 44K-R7 | 10 | NS | Untypeable | Not known |
CPI 53K-R3 | 11 | NS | IS1151-cpe | Plasmid |
CPI 57K-1 | 13 | + | IS1470-like-cpe | Plasmid |
CPI 57–1 | 15 | NS | IS1470-like-cpe | Plasmid |
CPI 63K-R5 | 19 | NS | IS1151-cpe | Plasmid |
CPI 75–3a, CPI 75–3b, CPI 75–5b | 21 | - | IS1151-cpe | Plasmid |
CPI 75–4 | 22 | + | IS1470-like-cpe | Plasmid |
CPI 76K-4, CPI 76K-5 | 24 | + | IS1470-cpe | Chromosome |
CPI 101–4 | 25 | + | Untypeable | Not known |
CPI 103K-3, CPI 103K-5, CPI 103K-6 | 29 | + | IS1151-cpe | Plasmid |
*MRP, macro restriction pattern. †+, present; –, absent, NS, not sporulated and thus cytotoxicity test on Vero cells not performed. |