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Phylogenetic Analysis of the Pathogenic Anaerobe Clostridium perfringens Using the 16S rRNA Nucleotide Sequence

¹Laboratoire de GÉnÉtique MolÉculaire BactÉrienne, Institut Pasteur, 28 rue du Docteur Roux, 75724 Paris Cedex 15, France
²Biologie Cellulaire Marine URA 671 CNRS, UniversitÉ Pierre & Marie Curie, Station Zoologique, 06230 Villefranche sur Mer, France

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ABSTRACT

Clostridium perfringens, the first pathogenic clostridium examined, was placed in the nonmycoplasma subgroup of the low-dG+dC-content gram-positive cluster on the basis of the results of a phylogenetic analysis in which we used 16S rRNA comparisons. The closest relative that has been identified to date is Clostridium pasteurianum.