Sarah A. Revitt‐Mills

Virulence on the move: toxin plasmids drive diversity and disease in Clostridium perfringens

Clostridium perfringens is a Gram-positive anaerobe responsible for a wide spectrum of diseases in humans and animals, driven by an expanding arsenal of toxins. Notably, many of these virulence factors are encoded on mobile genetic elements, particularly conjugative plasmids, pos...