Favour Ishmael Anthony

Clostridium botulinum and Botulism: Epidemiology, Diagnosis, Treatment, Control and Prevention

Rhoda Nwalozie & Favour Ishmael Anthony · South Asian Journal of Research in Microbiology · 2026

Clostridium botulinum is a Gram-positive, obligate anaerobic, spore-forming bacterium that produces botulinum toxin. It is one of the most potent neurotoxins known and this toxin causes botulism, a rare but life-threatening neuroparalytic disease characterized by descending flacc...