The rat as an animal model for infant botulism
- 1 August 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Infection and Immunity
- Vol. 29 (2) , 819-821
- https://doi.org/10.1128/iai.29.2.819-821.1980
Abstract
Susceptibility to intraintestinal C. botulinum colonization of conventional infant and germ-free adult rats is comparable to that of mice. C. botulinum-monoassociated rats pass C. botulinum toxin in their milk.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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