Two samples collected by FDA have tested positive for Clostridium botulinum Type A: a ByHeart powdered infant formula closed product sample that matches a clinical isolate from an infant included in ...

While most adults can eat honey without problems, it's a different story for babies less than one-year-old. Honey contains C. botulinum bacteria, which can produce a toxin in a baby's large intestine, ...

Except this time, my one-track brain could only fixate on the condiment I've been making religiously this year: garlic confit ...

A toxin much like the one that causes botulism has unexpectedly turned up in a completely different type of bacteria - Enterococcus. Where it came from is unclear, but the finding is concerning ...

A multistate outbreak of infant botulism linked to baby formula has expanded, with federal health officials identifying another batch of cases. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . C. botulinum, the major cause of botulism, is a gram-positive, anaerobic, spore-forming, motile bacillus that ...

The genome of the organism that produces the world's most lethal toxin is revealed today. This toxin is the one real weapon in the genome of Clostridium botulinum and less than 2 kg - the weight of ...

The genome of the organism that produces the world’s most lethal toxin is revealed today. This toxin is the one real weapon in the genome of Clostridium botulinum and less than 2 kg — the weight of ...

C. botulinum was first identified in 1897 in Belgium during an outbreak of food poisoning traced to imperfectly smoked ham. Clostridium tetani, the organism that causes tetanus, is a close relative.