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Pathogens

Clostridium botulinum
(spore-forming bacterium)

Clostridium botulinum is an anaerobic, Gram-positive, rod-shaped bacterium of the Clostridiaceae family that forms spores.

Its toxin causes food poisoning (botulism) when eating tainted foodstuff. Additionally Clostridium botulinum can trigger wound and infant botulism.

Transmission primarily occurs via contaminated food.

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Bacterial spores — Almost eternal: some bacterial spores are able to survive for several hundred years.

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