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Conversion of Toxigenicity in Clostridium botulinum Type C
Author(s) -
Inoue Katsuhiro,
Iida Hiroo
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
japanese journal of microbiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.664
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1348-0421
pISSN - 0021-5139
DOI - 10.1111/j.1348-0421.1970.tb00495.x
Subject(s) - clostridium botulinum , citation , botulism , library science , medicine , biology , microbiology and biotechnology , computer science , toxin
The production of some bacterial toxins was reported to be associated with lysogenization by specific bacteriophages [2, 5, 7]. This phenomenon was called phage-conversion and has been extensively studied in the mechanisms involved in the production of somatic antigens of the Salmonella [4, 6]. Dolman [1] firstly suggested the relationship between the toxigenicity and phage in Clostridium botulinum type E, though he could not demonstrate the phage. We have already reported the presence of bacteriophages in six types of C. botulinum