Preventing Foodborne Illness: Clostridium botulinum
EDIS, 2005 Botulism is caused by the nerve toxins produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum, often resulting in a serious paralytic condition that can lead to death.
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Septic shock due to Clostridium botulinum: a case report [PDF]
Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2023 Background Clostridium botulinum is an anaerobic, Gram-positive, rod-shaped bacterium that forms spores and the neurotoxin botulinum. It is best known for its toxin-induced flaccid paralytic disease, which is deadly without correct treatment.
P. M. L. Zomer, M. J. A. Kamps
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Pathogenicity and virulence of Clostridium botulinum. [PDF]
Virulence, 2023 Clostridium botulinum, a polyphyletic Gram-positive taxon of bacteria, is classified purely by their ability to produce botulinum neurotoxin (BoNT). BoNT is the primary virulence factor and the causative agent of botulism. A potentially fatal disease, botulism is classically characterized by a symmetrical descending flaccid paralysis, which is left ...
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Detecting Clostridium botulinum
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2006 To the Editor: In the October 2005 issue of Emerging Infectious Diseases, Song et al. described a fiber-optic, microsphere-based, high-density array composed of 18 species-specific probe microsensors, used to identify biological warfare agents, including Clostridium botulinum (1). Although the researchers used multiple probes for C. botulinum, we doubt
Josef Karner, Franz Allerberger
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Diversity of the Genomes and Neurotoxins of Strains of Clostridium botulinum Group I and Clostridium sporogenes Associated with Foodborne, Infant and Wound Botulism [PDF]
Toxins, 2020 Clostridium botulinum Group I and Clostridium sporogenes are closely related bacteria responsible for foodborne, infant and wound botulism. A comparative genomic study with 556 highly diverse strains of C. botulinum Group I and C.
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Two-family outbreak of botulism associated with the consumption of smoked ribs in Sichuan Province, China [PDF]
International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2015 Background: On September 22, 2013, two patients from Sichuan Province, China presented with symptoms of food-borne botulism, a rare but fatal illness caused by the consumption of foods containing Clostridium botulinum neurotoxins.
Ling Feng +4 more
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Conjugative botulinum neurotoxin-encoding plasmids in Clostridium botulinum. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2010 Clostridium botulinum produces seven distinct serotypes of botulinum neurotoxins (BoNTs). The genes encoding different subtype neurotoxins of serotypes A, B, F and several dual neurotoxin-producing strains have been shown to reside on plasmids ...
Kristin M Marshall +2 more
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Conflicting Clinical Presentation of Infection with Clostridium botulinum and Clostridium perfringens in a 5-Month-Old Infant [PDF]
Journal of Pediatrics: Clinical PracticeWe present a 5-month-old infant with a 1-day history of poor feeding and sudden progression into generalized weakness including septic shock syndrome after consumption of homemade food. Botulism and sepsis symptoms could be explained by the presence of a
Barbara Schaub, MD +8 more
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Bacteriophages of Clostridium botulinum [PDF]
Journal of Virology, 1968 Katsuhiro Inoue, H Iida
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Identification and enumeration of Clostridium spp. In sufu [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2021 In this study, Clostridium spp. was counted in 49 Chinese commercial sufu samples, and 25 samples were detected Clostridium in all samples: the detection rate was 51.02%. About 93.87% of the samples contained Clostridium at low levels (log CFU/g＜3.0) and
Qiong Xu +6 more
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