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Typing of Clostridium novyi.
| Type | Main toxin(s) |
Disease | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alpha | Beta | ||
| A | +++ | − | Gas gangrene (humans and animals) |
| B | ++ | + | Infectious necrotic hepatitis |
| C | − | − | No known disease association |
| D (or C. haemolyticum) | − | +++ | Bacillary hemoglobinuria |
− = no toxin produced; + to +++ = increasing amount of toxin produced.
