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Culturing and Maintaining Clostridium difficile in an Anaerobic Environment
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Proposed scheme for isolation and identification of Clostridium perfringens and Clostridium perfringens-like
I S Abdel Salam1, S M el Sanousi
1Ministry of Animal Resources, Khartoum, Sudan.
Revue D'Elevage Et De Medecine Veterinaire Des Pays Tropicaux
|January 1, 1991
Abstract:
The properties of 220 strains of Clostridium perfringens and Clostridium perfringens-like organisms were studied. A scheme was designed for the identification of these strains. The scheme was based on the presence/or absence of lecithinase enzyme, synergestic haemolysis with Streptococcus group B toxin, their inhibition with appropriate antisera and reaction in the lactose gelatin nitrate motility test (LGNM) with the fermentation of a few sugars.
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