Clostridium Botulinum
Bacterial Specificity

Author: Federica Casasco
Date: 17/01/2011

Description

DEFINITION

Clostridium botulinum is a gram-positive, rod shaped bacterium that produces neurotoxins known as BOTULINUM NEUROTOXINS TYPES A-G, which causes flaccid muscular paralysis seen in botulism, and is also the main paralytic agent in botox. It is an obligate anaerobe, meaning that oxygen is poisonous to the cells.

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Clostridium Botulinum

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