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Clostridium perfringens
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Clostridium perfringens
Clostridium perfringens
(formerly known as
C. welchii,
or
Bacillus welchii
) is a
Gram-positive
, rod-shaped,
anaerobic
,
spore-forming
pathogenic bacterium
of the genus
Clostridium
.
C. perfringens
is everpresent in nature and can be found as a normal component of decaying vegetation,
marine sediment
, the
intestinal tract of humans
and other
vertebrates
,
insects
, and
soil
. It has the shortest reported generation time of any organism at 6.3 minutes in
thioglycollate
medium.
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