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    Clostridium is a genus of anaerobic, Gram-positive bacteria. Species of Clostridium inhabit soils and the intestinal tract of animals, including humans...
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    Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI or C-diff), also known as Clostridium difficile infection, is a symptomatic infection due to the spore-forming...
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    Clostridium perfringens (formerly known as C. welchii, or Bacillus welchii) is a Gram-positive, bacillus (rod-shaped), anaerobic, spore-forming pathogenic...
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    Clostridium botulinum is a gram-positive, rod-shaped, anaerobic, spore-forming, motile bacterium with the ability to produce botulinum toxin, which is...
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    Clostridioides difficile (syn. Clostridium difficile) is a bacterium known for causing serious diarrheal infections, and may also cause colon cancer....
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    Clostridium tetani is a common soil bacterium and the causative agent of tetanus. Vegetative cells of Clostridium tetani are usually rod-shaped and up...
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    Diphtheria is an infection caused by the bacterium Corynebacterium diphtheriae. Most infections are asymptomatic or have a mild clinical course, but in...
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  • bacteria: Clostridium chauvoei Clostridium haemolyticum Clostridium novyi Clostridium perfringens Clostridium septicum Clostridium sordellii Clostridium tetani...
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  • PMC 4196224. PMID 25271283. Identification of Clostridium Species and DNA Fingerprinting of Clostridium perfringens by Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism...
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  • persistent apyrexia and profound capillary leak syndrome (see entry for Clostridium novyi alpha-toxin for details of mechanism). In terms of management,...
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    Clostridium acetobutylicum, ATCC 824, is a commercially valuable bacterium sometimes called the "Weizmann Organism", after Jewish Russian-born biochemist...
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    Clostridium septicum is a gram positive, spore forming, obligate anaerobic bacterium. Clostridium septicum can cause gas gangrene, but unlike other Clostridium...
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  • Clostridium novyi (oedematiens) a Gram-positive, endospore- forming, obligate anaerobic bacteria of the class Clostridia. It is ubiquitous, being found...
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  • Hathewaya histolytica (formerly Clostridium histolyticum) is a species of bacteria found in feces and the soil. It is a motile, gram-positive, aerotolerant...
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  • Enterocloster clostridioformis, formerly known as Clostridium clostridioforme, is an anaerobic, motile, Gram-positive bacterium. E. clostridioformis are...
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    botox), is a highly potent neurotoxic protein produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum and related species. It prevents the release of the neurotransmitter...
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    Clostridium butyricum is a strictly anaerobic endospore-forming Gram-positive butyric acid–producing bacillus subsisting by means of fermentation using...
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  • Clostridium acidisoli Clostridium aciditolerans Clostridium aestuarii Clostridium akagii Clostridium algidicarnis Clostridium algifaecis Clostridium algoriphilum...
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  • Collagenase clostridium histolyticum is an enzyme produced by the bacterium Clostridium histolyticum that dismantles collagen. It is used as a powder-and-solvent...
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  • Zellkulturen. Retrieved 2022-09-27. "Clostridium hiranonis Taxon Passport - StrainInfo". www.straininfo.net. "[Clostridium] hiranonis". www.uniprot.org. Parker...
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  • Clostridium cellulosi is a Gram-negative and cellulolytic bacterium from the genus Clostridium. Parte, A.C. "Clostridium". LPSN. "[Clostridium] cellulosi"...
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    potentially fatal illness caused by a toxin produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum. The disease begins with weakness, blurred vision, feeling...
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    tissue gas in gangrene. This deadly form of gangrene usually is caused by Clostridium perfringens bacteria. About 1,000 cases of gas gangrene are reported...
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  • Clostridium argentinense is an anaerobic, motile, gram-positive bacterium. Some bacilli now identified as Cl. argentinense were previously classified...
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    Clostridium enterotoxins are toxins produced by Clostridium species. Clostridial species are one of the major causes of food poisoning/gastrointestinal...
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  • ventriculi and Sarcina maxima within the genus Clostridium. It has been proposed to be renamed to Clostridium ventriculi in 2016, but ultimately retained...
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    bacteria Clostridioides difficile, formerly known as Clostridium difficile. It is similar to Clostridium difficile Toxin B. The toxins are the main virulence...
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  • Enterocloster bolteae, formerly Clostridium bolteae, is a gram-positive, rod-shaped bacterium from the genus Enterocloster. E. bolteae is obligately anaerobic...
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    been shown to be associated with Clostridium sordellii hemorrhagic toxin (TcsH), lethal toxin (TcsL), and Clostridium novyi alpha toxin (Tcn α), thus,...
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  • Clostridium akagii is a nitrogen-fixing and anaerobic bacterium from the genus Clostridium which has been isolated from the Fichtel Mountains in Germany...
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