Bacteria that produce toxin responsible for food poisoning known as botulism. An anaerobic bacteria which produce very heat resistant spores. The organism is a gram-positive rod.
An anaerobic bacterium responsible for causing botulism in people.
Motile food poisoning species possessing both saccharolytic and proteolytic properties, and forming in infected food an exotoxin of very great potency. Ingestion of such food by man or animals causes grave neurotoxic symptoms. A number of types and subtypes of the species occur. Antitoxin is employed therapeutically.
The species that causes most cases of botulism. Under anaerobic conditions, the bacteria produce a neurotoxin that causes paralysis by blocking the release of acetylcholine at neuromuscular junctions.