title: Incidence of Clostridium botulinum in crabmeat from the blue crab.
abstract: The incidence of Clostridium botulinum in fresh crabmeat of blue crab was six out of 986 samples; in pasteurized crabmeat one sample out of 1,000 contained the organism.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003386:Brachyura; D003014:Clostridium botulinum / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D005516:Food Microbiology; D005519:Food Preservation; D006358:Hot Temperature; D051379:Mice; D012758:Shellfish; D014481:United States