“…Furthermore, C. perfringens can produce additional virulence factors such as enterotoxin, which is responsible for diarrhea in humans (LINDSTRÖM et al, 2011), necrotic enteritis toxin B-like (NetB), which is responsible for necrotic enteritis in broiler chickens (KEYBURN et al, 2008), and NetF, which is associated with acute diarrhea in dogs and foals (GOHARI et al, 2015;DINIZ et al, 2016). Despite its importance as an enteropathogen, C. perfringens is commonly reported in the enteric microbiota of healthy animals, thus complicating the laboratory diagnosis of infections caused by this microorganism (SILVA et al, 2015). In wild animals, despite some case reports, the importance of C. perfringens remains unclear (SILVA et al, 2015).…”