Experimental Food Poisoning with Heat‐Susceptible Clostridium perfringens Type A

SUMMARY— Clostridium perfringens type A, S‐79 behaves like a gas‐gangrene producing strain in its production of heat‐susceptible spores both in broth and in the intestinal tract of man. However, vegetative cells ingested by human volunteers produce the food‐poisoning syndrome characterized by abdominal pain and diarrhea.