@article{mbs:/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/00207713-42-2-312, author = "Canard, Bruno and Garnier, Thierry and Lafay, Bénédicte and Christen, Richard and Cole, Stewart T.", title = "Phylogenetic Analysis of the Pathogenic Anaerobe Clostridium perfringens Using the 16S rRNA Nucleotide Sequence", journal= "International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology", year = "1992", volume = "42", number = "2", pages = "312-314", doi = "https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-42-2-312", url = "https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/00207713-42-2-312", publisher = "Microbiology Society", issn = "1466-5034", type = "Journal Article", 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.", }