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Genetic diversity among Botulinum Neurotoxin-producing clostridial strains.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Feb 2007
Hill K K, Smith T J, Helma C H, Ticknor L O, Foley B T, Svensson R T, Brown J L, Johnson E A, Smith L A, Okinaka R T, Jackson P J, Marks J D
Abstract excerpt
Clostridium botulinum is a taxonomic designation for many diverse anaerobic spore-forming rod-shaped bacteria that have the common property of producing botulinum neurotoxins (BoNTs). The BoNTs are exoneurotoxins that can cause severe paralysis and death in humans and other animal species. A collection of 174 C. botulinum strains was examined by amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) analysis and by...
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