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Characterization of a neurotoxigenic Clostridium butyricum strain isolated from the food implicated in an outbreak of food-borne type E botulism

Tadahiro Karasawa, Kun Zou, Xin Kuang, Xiaomeng Wang, Can‐Zhong Lu, Chenxi Wang, Kiyotaka Yamakawa, Shinichiro Nakamura

Journal of Clinical Microbiology · 1997 · 79 citations · 8 references

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Neurotoxigenic Clostridium butyricum was isolated from the food implicated in an outbreak of clinically diagnosed type E botulism in China. PCR assay showed that the isolate (LCL 155) contained the type E botulinum toxin gene. This appears to be the first report of neurotoxigenic C. butyricum causing food-borne botulism.

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