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Molecular epidemiology of infant botulism in California and elsewhere, 1976-2010.
The Journal of infectious diseases - 1 Dec 2014
Dabritz Haydee A, Hill Karen K, Barash Jason R, Ticknor Lawrence O, Helma Charles H, Dover Nir, Payne Jessica R, Arnon Stephen S
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BACKGROUND: Infant botulism (IB), first identified in California in 1976, results from Clostridium botulinum spores that germinate, multiply, and produce botulinum neurotoxin (BoNT) in the immature intestine. From 1976 to 2010 we created an archive of 1090 BoNT-producing isolates consisting of 10...
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