Intestinal toxemia botulism in Italy, 1984-2005.

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Published in Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis on June 01, 2007

Authors

L Fenicia1, F Anniballi, P Aureli

Author Affiliations

1: National Reference Center for Botulism, National Center for Food Quality and Risk Assessment, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Viale Regina Elena 299, Rome, Italy. fenicia@iss.it

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