Tags: Bacteria.
Clostridium botulinum is a Gram-positive rod-shaped anaerobic spore-forming bacterium with the ability to produce the neurotoxin botulinum. The botulinum toxin can cause a severe flaccid paralytic disease in humans and animals and is the most potent toxin known in nature with a lethal dose of less than1 μg in humans.C. botulinum is a diverse group of bacteria initially grouped together by their ability to produce botulinum toxin and now known as four distinct groups C.
