The news last week that three people in Sydney were hospitalized with botulism after receiving botox injections has raised ...

Our Clostridium botulinum research funded by several ... and genetic regulation of botulinum neurotoxin production and spore formation, stress and adaptive mechanisms, and ecology and cultural ...

Canned foods are often the culprit of this rare, but potentially deadly, condition. The good news is: It's treatable if caught early.

Caused by the bacteria Clostridium botulinum which spreads through contaminated food, soil, or through open wounds. Ingestion of bacterial spores and toxins are the main reasons behind the symptoms.

The mass poisoning is thought to have originated from a batch of packaged, preprepared beans contaminated with the bacterium Clostridium botulinum. Spores of this bacterium are heat resistant and ...