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Botulism bug has few genome wrinkles
05-23-2007 · EurekAlert!The genome of the organism that produces the world's most lethal toxin is revealed today. This toxin is the major weapon in the genome of Clostridium botulinum: less than two kg is enough to kill every person on the planet. The results, reported in Genome Research, show that C. botulinum doesn't have subtle tools to evade our human defences or tricky methods of acquiring resistance to antibiotics, but hits its host with a microbial sledgehammer.
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