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MSH: The most common etiologic agent of GAS GANGRENE. It is differentiable into several distinct types based on the distribution of twelve different toxins.,NCI: Any bacterial organism that can be assigned to the species Clostridium perfringens.,NCI: 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.,CSP: most common etiologic agent of gas gangrene; differentiable into several distinct types based on the distribution of twelve different toxins.
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