The mechanism by which bacterial toxins that cause food-borne botulism are absorbed through the intestinal lining and into the bloodstream has been discovered by UC Irvine School of Medicine. Their study, which appears in the June 20 issue of emScience/em, points to new approaches to blocking this poisonous substance. Botulism is a rare and often fatal paralytic illness due to a neurotoxin produced by emClostridium botulinum/em bacteria, which can appear ...
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