clostridium perfringens

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   anaerobic Gram-positive rod bacterium that produces epsilon toxin; can be used as a bioweapon

   Broadereubacteriabioweapon

   Part ofgenus Clostridium

Questions about clostridium perfringens

What does clostridium perfringens mean?

clostridium perfringens means "anaerobic Gram-positive rod bacterium that produces epsilon toxin; can be used as a bioweapon".

Is clostridium perfringens a common word?

clostridium perfringens is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.