Intestinal toxemia botulism in two young people, caused by Clostridium butyricum type E.

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Published in Clin Infect Dis on December 01, 1999

Authors

L Fenicia1, G Franciosa, M Pourshaban, P Aureli

Author Affiliations

1: Food Microbiology Laboratory, National Reference Center for Botulism, Istituto Superiore della Sanità, 00161 Rome, Italy.

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