Correction for Chen et al., Epsilon-Toxin Production by Clostridium perfringens Type D Strain CN3718 Is Dependent upon the agr Operon but Not the VirS/VirR Two-Component Regulatory System
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Published 27 January 2015 Citation Chen J, Rood JI, McClane BA. 2015. Correction for Chen et al., Epsilon-toxin production by Clostridium perfringens type D strain CN3718 is dependent upon the agr operon but not the VirS/VirR two-component regulatory system. mBio 6(1):e02491-14. doi:10.1128/mBio.02491-14. Copyright © 2015 Chen et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license, which permits unrestricted noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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