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Clostridium oedematiens is among the most fastidious of the pathogenic anaerobes, and it is probably mainly for this reason that no chemical investigations on its lethal (α-)toxin appear to have been carried out. Other reasons for this neglect are to be found among the observations made by Walbum and Reymann1, who remarked that the toxin is stable only within a narrow range of pH values and is quickly destroyed even at moderately elevated temperatures.
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PHILLIPS, A., BATTY, I. Gel-filtration of the α-Toxin of Clostridium oedematiens Type B. Nature 198, 1200–1201 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/1981200a0
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