Types A and F Clostridium perfringens in healthcare wastewater from Ghana.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Clostridium perfringens causes gas gangrene and food poisoning in humans, and monitoring this bacterium is important for public health. Although whole-genome sequencing is useful to comprehensively understand the virulence, resistome, and global genetic relatedness of bacteria, limited genomic data from environmental sources and developing countries hamper our understanding of the richness of the intrinsic genomic diversity of this pathogen. Here, we successfully accumulated the genetic data on C. perfringens strains isolated from hospital effluent and provided the first evidence that predicted pathogenic C. perfringens may be disseminated in the clinical environment in Ghana. Our findings suggest the importance of risk assessment in the environment

SUBMITTER: Kawamura T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10734495 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature