Bacterium
clostridium perfringens
Subclass of:
Clostridium
Definitions related to clostridium perfringens:
  • A species of anaerobic, Gram positive, rod shaped bacteria assigned to the phylum Proteobacteria. This species is motile, hydrolyzes gelatin, produces enterotoxin, is beta-hemolytic and catalase negative. C. perfringens is a food borne pathogen, being the causative agent of pig-bel syndrome and gas gangrene.
    NCI Thesaurus
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • Any bacterial organism that can be assigned to the species Clostridium perfringens.
    CDISC Terminology
    Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), 2021
  • Most common etiologic agent of gas gangrene; differentiable into several distinct types based on the distribution of twelve different toxins.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • The most common etiologic agent of GAS GANGRENE. It is differentiable into several distinct types based on the distribution of twelve different toxins.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
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