L’entérotoxémie bovine est un syndrome aigu à suraigu caractérisé par une mort subite et des lésions nécrohémorragiques au niveau de l’intestin grêle. Sous l’influence de facteurs déclenchants encore mal connus, l’entérotoxémie est associée à une multiplication exponentielle de Clostridium perfringens dans des portions souvent limitées de l’intesti...
Published in Infection and immunity
Many Clostridium perfringens strains produce NanI as their major sialidase. Previous studies showed that NanI could potentiate C. perfringens epsilon toxin cytotoxicity by enhancing the binding of this toxin to host cells. The present study first determined that NanI exerts similar cytotoxicity-enhancing effects on C. perfringens enterotoxin and be...
Published in British poultry science
1. The objective was to investigate the effects of Bacillus subtilis, yeast cell wall (YCW) and their combination on intestinal health of broilers challenged by Clostridium perfringens over a 21-d period. 2. Using a 5 × 2 factorial arrangement of treatments, 800 1-d-old male Cobb 500 broilers were used to study the effects of feed additives (withou...
Published in Biochemical and biophysical research communications
The pathogenesis and infectivity of Gram-positive bacteria are mediated by many surface proteins that are covalently attached to peptidoglycans of the cell wall. The covalent attachment of these proteins is catalyzed by sortases (Srts), a family of cysteine transpeptidases, which are classified into six classes, A - F, based on their amino acid seq...
Published in Microbial pathogenesis
The study project was designed to determine the effects of Clostridium perfringens type D infection on hematological and biochemical parameters in goats. Purposive blood samples were collected from 6 healthy and 12 diseased goats positive for C. perfringens infection. Neither the animals nor their mother were vaccinated against Clostridium perfring...
Published in Gynecologic oncology reports
Uterine gas gangrene caused by Clostridium perfringens is a serious, often life-threatening infection that is rarely encountered in the practice of gynecologic oncology. However, the hypoxic nature of gynecologic cancers due to necrosis and/or prior radiation therapy creates a microenvironment optimal for proliferation of anaerobic bacteria such as...
Gangrenous dermatitis (GD) is a disease of chickens and turkeys that causes severe economic losses in the poultry industry worldwide. Clostridium septicum, Clostridium perfringens type A, and occasionally Clostridium sordellii are considered the main causes of GD, although Staphylococcus aureus and other aerobic bacteria may also be involved in som...
Published in International journal of pharmaceutics
Clostridium perfringens epsilon toxin (ETX) is considered as one of the most dangerous potential biological weapons. The goal of this work was to identify inhibitors of ETX using a novel approach for the inactivation of pore-forming toxins. The approach is based on the blocking of the target pore with molecules having the same symmetry as the pore ...
Published in Journal of Veterinary Research
Introduction: The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of Clostridium botulinum and Clostridium perfringens in food samples purchased from Polish producers. Material and Methods: The analyses were performed on 260 food samples collected in Lublin and Subcarpathian regions: 56 of smoked meat, 21 of pork meat, 20 of dairy products, 26 of ...
Published in Carbohydrate research
Cell surface polysaccharides produced by C. perfringens ATCC 13124 were analyzed using NMR, chemical and immunological methods. Two distinct polymers were identified. The more abundant PS1 had a structure based on a polymer of β-mannosamine with a number of modifications, including varying levels of substitution at O-6 with PEtN, N-acetylation, and...
