Recovery of a strain of Clostridium botulinum producing both neurotoxin A and neurotoxin B from canned macrobiotic food.
A rare strain of Clostridium botulinum subtype Ab was isolated from a canned macrobiotic food suspected of being linked to a fatal case of food-borne botulism. The strain was recovered and identified by conventional methods modified by the inclusion of a PCR assay (G. Franciosa, J.L. Ferreira, and C.L. Hatheway, J. Clin. Microbiol. 32:1911-1917, 1994). The titers of neurotoxins produced by the strain were evaluated by a mouse bioassay.
Franciosa
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Laboratorio Alimenti, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy.
Fenicia
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Pourshaban
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Aureli
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D000368:Aged; D000818:Animals; D001905:Botulinum Toxins / Q000633:toxicity*; D003014:Clostridium botulinum / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D005260:Female; D005516:Food Microbiology; D005519:Food Preservation; D006801:Humans; D051379:Mice; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction
D001905:Botulinum Toxins