Characterization of a neurotoxigenic Clostridium butyricum strain isolated from the food implicated in an outbreak of food-borne type E botulism
- 1997-08
- Journal of Clinical Microbiology 35(8)
- X. Meng
- T. Karasawa
- K. Zou
- X. Kuang
- X. Wang
- C. Lu
- C. Wang
- K. Yamakawa
- S. Nakamura
- PubMed: 9230405
- DOI: 10.1128/jcm.35.8.2160-2162.1997
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Abstract
Neurotoxigenic Clostridium butyricum was isolated from the food implicated in an outbreak of clinically diagnosed type E botulism in China. PCR assay showed that the isolate (LCL 155) contained the type E botulinum toxin gene. This appears to be the first report of neurotoxigenic C. butyricum causing food-borne botulism.