In the current study, the outgrowth of spores of 15 different food isolates of Clostridiumperfringens was evaluated
in vacuum-packed ground beef during storage at 12 °C and 25 °C. This included enterotoxic strains carrying the
gene encoding the CPE enterotoxin on the chromosome (C-cpe), on a plasmid (P-cpe) and cpe-negative strains