In some cases, an anaerobic infection may not cause symptoms until it becomes severe and spreads to multiple body areas. The Clostridium perfringens bacterium is the most common cause of food ...

Craig Hedberg, PhD, a professor in the Division of Environmental Health Sciences at the University of Minnesota and codirector of the Minnesota Integrated Food Safety Center of Excellence, told CIDRAP ...

Foodborne botulism, caused by botulinum neurotoxin-producing clostridia, is a severe and potentially fatal disease resulting ... clostridia have grown. Clostridium perfringens typically causes ...

Six common pathogens were responsible for nearly 10 million foodborne illnesses in 2019, according to an analysis published ...

a bacteria called Clostridium perfringens was at work. Like E. coli, C. perfringens hangs out naturally in the guts of animals and people, and is often in raw meat. The US Centers for Disease ...

Clostridium perfringens, invasive Listeria monocytogenes ... the researchers used 2017–2019 data from the Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network, also known as FoodNet.

perfringens-related diseases in both animals and humans. Source: TranSpread Journal reference: Wu, K., et al. (2024). Genomic insights into cpb2-positive Clostridium perfringens and the potential ...