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Botulism is an intoxication, whose vector is the botulinum toxin. The toxin is a protein produced in anaerobic conditions. The bacteria which produces the toxin is called Clostridium botulinum, a large anaerobic gram-positive bacillus. Seven serological varieties of the bacterium is named from A to G. All these types of bacteria produces simillar symptoms : acetylcholine is not released from the motor nerve endings, so causing paralysis, blurred vision, nausea, vomiting, diarreha or constipation, respiratory difficulty.

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