Carman Robert J, Sayeed Sameera, Li Jihong, Genheimer Christopher W, Hiltonsmith Megan F, Wilkins Tracy D, McClane Bruce A
TechLab, Inc., Blacksburg, VA 24060-6358, USA.
Anaerobe. 2008 Apr;14(2):102-8. doi: 10.1016/j.anaerobe.2008.01.003. Epub 2008 Feb 7.
We investigated the frequency of Clostridium perfringens in the normal fecal flora of healthy North Americans. About half of 43 subjects were colonized with C. perfringens at levels of approximately 10(6)cfu/g feces. Only type A strains were recovered. Spores sometimes outnumbered vegetative cells. Several genotypes were found. Some donors carried two genotypes, some only one. We found no alpha, beta2 or enterotoxin in the stools of any donors. Though some isolates carried toxin genes (e.g. cpe and cpb2) on plasmids, we saw no indication that healthy humans are the reservoir for the chromosomally-borne cpe recovered from cases of C. perfringens food poisoning.
我们调查了北美健康人群正常粪便菌群中产气荚膜梭菌的频率。43名受试者中约有一半被产气荚膜梭菌定植,粪便中该菌水平约为10⁶ cfu/g。仅分离出A型菌株。孢子数量有时超过营养细胞。发现了几种基因型。一些供体携带两种基因型,一些仅携带一种。我们在所有供体的粪便中均未发现α毒素、β2毒素或肠毒素。尽管一些分离株在质粒上携带毒素基因(如cpe和cpb2),但我们没有发现任何迹象表明健康人是从产气荚膜梭菌食物中毒病例中分离出的染色体携带的cpe的储存宿主。