Article
Sequence diversity of genes encoding botulinum neurotoxin type F.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 Jul 2010
Raphael Brian H, Choudoir Mallory J, Lúquez Carolina, Fernández Rafael, Maslanka Susan E
Abstract excerpt
Botulism due to type F botulinum neurotoxin (BoNT/F) is rare (<1% of cases), and only a limited number of clostridial strains producing this toxin type have been isolated. As a result, analysis of the diversity of genes encoding BoNT/F has been challenging. In this study, the entire bont/F nucleotide sequences were determined from 33 type F botulinum toxin-producing clostridial strains isolated from environmental...
Topics
- Botulinum Toxins
- Botulism
- Clostridium
- Cluster Analysis
- DNA, Bacterial
- Disease Outbreaks
- Environmental Microbiology
- Genotype
- Humans
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Phylogeny