Clostridium perfringens Enterotoxin detection kits

Some Clostridium perfringens strains produce an important toxin named Clostridium perfringens enterotoxin (CPE), which is responsible for several human gastrointestinal (GI) diseases, including C. perfringens type A food poisoning and many cases of antibiotic-associated diarrhea (AAD), sporadic diarrhea (SD), and nosocomial diarrheal disease. Both chromosomal cpe and plasmid cpe C. perfringens type A strains can be found in retail foods, healthy human feces and the environment, such as in sewage. Intact cpe genes can also be found in some type C, D and E strains.