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An Antibiotic-Treated Mouse Model Reveals the Progression of Intestinal Botulism
2026-06-17
Abstract excerpt
Intestinal botulism, including infant botulism and adult intestinal toxemia botulism, is a life-threatening disease caused by intestinal infection with Clostridium botulinum ( Cb ) spores. Infants are particularly susceptible to Cb infection because of their immature gut microbiota, whereas healthy adults are generally protected by gut microbiota-mediated colonization resistance. Thus, immature gut microbiota o...
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- Literature Corpus work
- f6be9e34-1592-599c-81af-a10df44b1ed3
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- 10.64898/2026.06.17.732786
