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is not preformed in food to cause food-poi- United States. The organism is a Gram-
soning cases. negative, facultative anaerobic, non-spore-
Symptoms occur between 8 and 20 hours forming rod, motile by peritrichous flagella.
after ingestion of a large number of viable C. It does not ferment lactose and sucrose but
perfringens and include acute abdominal ferments dulcitol, mannitol, and glucose.
pain, diarrhea, and nausea, with rare vomit- There are exceptions to the general charac-
ing. The symptoms are milder than those teristics. For example, lactose-positive cul-
caused by Salmonella. Detection of this tures have been found, and nonmotile species
organism is by anaerobic cultivation of food exist, such as S. pullorum and S. gallinarum.
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