Table 3.

C. perfringens toxinotype: disease associations

Toxinotype	Diseases and species affected
A	Gas gangrene of humans and several animals; possible involvement in enterotoxemia and GI disease of ruminants, horses and pig; hemorrhagic gastroenteritis in dogs and horses
B	Lamb dysentery
C	Hemorrhagic and necrotizing enteritis of several neonatal animals; struck; enteritis necroticans (pig-bel, Darmbrand) in humans
D	Enterotoxemia in sheep, goats and cattle; enterocolitis in goats
E	Possible involvement in gastroenteritis of cattle and rabbits
F	Human food poisoning, antibiotic associated diarrhea and sporadic diarrhea
G	Necrotic enteritis of poultry