Recovery of a strain of Clostridium botulinum producing both neurotoxin A and neurotoxin B from canned macrobiotic food
- 1 March 1997
- journal article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Applied and Environmental Microbiology
- Vol. 63 (3) , 1148-50
- https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.63.3.1148-1150.1997
Abstract
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.Keywords
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