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TpeL-producing strains of Clostridium perfringens type A are highly virulent for broiler chicks by Coursodon, C.F., Glock, R.D., Moore, K.L., Cooper, K.K., Songer, J.G.

“…Clostridium perfringens type A and type C are causative agents of necrotic enteritis (NE) in poultry. TpeL, a recently-described novel member of the family of…”
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Diagnosis of Clostridium perfringens intestinal infections in sheep and goats by Uzal, F.A, Songer, J.G

“…Correspondence: 1 Corresponding Author: Francisco A. Uzal, California Animal Health and Food Safety Laboratory System, University of California, Davis, 105 W…”
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Comparative Pathology of Clostridium difficile-associated Disease by Keel, M.K, Songer, J.G

“…Clostridium difficile is a confirmed pathogen in a wide variety of mammals, but the incidence of disease varies greatly in relation to host species, age,…”
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Clostridium perfringens type C and Clostridium difficile co-infection in foals by Uzal, F.A., Diab, S.S., Blanchard, P., Moore, J., Anthenill, L., Shahriar, F., Garcia, J.P., Songer, J.G.

“…Clostridium perfringens type C is one of the most important agents of enteric disease in newborn foals. Clostridium difficile is now recognized as an important…”
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Distribution and Density of Clostridium difficile Toxin Receptors on the Intestinal Mucosa of Neonatal Pigs by Keel, M.K, Songer, J.G

“…Clostridium difficile is an enteric pathogen affecting a variety of mammals, but it has only recently been diagnosed as a cause of neonatal typhlocolitis in…”
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Clonal relationships among Clostridium perfringens of porcine origin as determined by multilocus sequence typing by Jost, B. Helen, Trinh, Hien T., Songer, J. Glenn

“…Clostridium perfringens is ubiquitous in the environment and the intestinal tracts of most mammals, but this organism also causes gas gangrene and enteritis in…”
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Characterization of detergent-soluble proteins of Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis by Braithwaite, C E, Smith, E E, Songer, J G, Reine, A H

“…Whole cells and culture supernatant of isolates of Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis were studied by sodium dodecyl sulphate polyacrylamide gel…”
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Prevention of porcine Clostridium difficile-associated disease by competitive exclusion with nontoxigenic organisms by Songer, J. Glenn, Jones, Randy, Anderson, Michael A., Barbara, Angelique J., Post, Karen W., Trinh, Hien T.

“…Clostridium difficile is widely known as a cause of disease in humans, and has emerged as an important problem in neonatal swine. No commercial product is…”
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Necrotic enteritis-producing strains of Clostridium perfringens displace non-necrotic enteritis strains from the gut of chicks by Barbara, A.J, Trinh, H.T, Glock, R.D, Songer, J.G

“…We inoculated broiler chicks with mixtures of Clostridium perfringens strains to investigate the single strain dominance observed in natural cases of necrotic…”
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Clostridium perfringens alpha toxin is produced in the intestines of broiler chicks inoculated with an alpha toxin mutant by Coursodon, Christine F., Trinh, Hien T., Mallozzi, Michael, Vedantam, Gayatri, Glock, R.D., Songer, J.G.

“…Poultry necrotic enteritis (NE) is caused by specific strains of Clostridium perfringens, most of which are type A. The role of alpha toxin (CPA) in NE has…”
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Multiplex polymerase chain reaction assay for genotyping Clostridium perfringens by Meer, R R, Songer, J G

“…To develop a multiplex polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay to detect the genes for the major toxins of Clostridium perfringens (cpa [alpha toxin], cpb [beta…”
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Association of genes encoding beta2 toxin and a collagen binding protein in Clostridium perfringens isolates of porcine origin by Jost, B. Helen, Billington, Stephen J., Trinh, Hien T., Songer, J. Glenn

“…Clostridium perfringens is a cause of economically significant enteritis in livestock. Beta2 toxin, encoded by one of two cpb2 alleles, is implicated as a…”
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Comparison of western immunoblots and gene detection assays for identification of potentially enterotoxigenic isolates of Clostridium perfringens by Korkai-Kun, J.F. (University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA.), Songer, J.G, Czeczulin, J.R, Chen, F, McClane, B.A

“…Clostridium perfringens enterotoxin (CPE) is an important sporulation-associated virulence factor in several illnesses of humans and domestic animals,…”
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The gene encoding pyolysin, the pore-forming toxin of Arcanobacterium pyogenes, resides within a genomic islet flanked by essential genes by Rudnick, Stefani T., Jost, B.Helen, Songer, J.Glenn, Billington, Stephen J.

“…The plo gene, encoding the Arcanobacterium pyogenes cholesterol-dependent cytolysin, pyolysin (PLO), was localized to a 2.7-kb genomic islet of reduced %G+C…”
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Toxic phospholipases D of Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis, C. ulcerans and Arcanobacterium haemolyticum: cloning and sequence homology by McNamara, Peter J., Cuevas, William A., Songer, J.Glenn

“…The genes encoding toxic phospholipases D (PLD) from Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis (Cp)biovar equi and C. ulcerans ( Cu) have been cloned and sequenced…”
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Multiplex PCR assay for detection of Clostridium perfringens in feces and intestinal contents of pigs and in swine feed by Kanakaraj, Rajalakshmi, Harris, D.L, Songer, J.Glenn, Bosworth, B

“…A multiplex polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay, developed to detect the alpha-toxin and enterotoxin genes ( cpa and cpe, respectively) of Clostridium…”
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Enterotoxigenic Clostridium perfringens type A necrotic enteritis in a foal by Bueschel, D, Walker, R, Woods, L, Kokai-Kun, J, McClane, B, Songer, J G

“…A Thoroughbred-Quarter Horse crossbred foal developed hemorrhagic enteritis and died < 48 hours after birth. Gross and histologic findings were suggestive of…”
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Enteritis as a cause of mortality in the western bluebird (Sialia mexicana) by Bildfell, R.J, Eltzroth, E.K, Songer, J.G

“…Increased mortalities in adult western bluebirds utilizing nestboxes were noted in western Oregon during 1998 and 1999. A necrohemorrhagic enteritis was found…”
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The Arcanobacterium (Actinomyces) pyogenes plasmid pAP1 is a member of the pIJ101/pJV1 family of rolling circle replication plasmids by Billington, S.J. (The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.), Jost, B.H, Songer, J.G

“…The 2.4-kb plasmid pAP1 from Arcanobacterium (Actinomyces) pyogenes had sequence similarity within the putative replication protein and double-stranded origin…”
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Human disease associated with Clostridium perfringens enterotoxin by Meer, R R, Songer, J G, Park, D L

“…Clostridium perfringens continues to be a common cause of food-borne disease. Characteristics of this organism that contribute to its ability to cause…”
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