Finished Whole-Genome Sequences of Two Clostridium botulinum Type A(B) Isolates
Jessica L Halpin1, Karen Hill2, Shannon L Johnson2
1Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA JLHalpin@cdc.gov.
Genome Announcements
|May 27, 2017
Abstract:
Clostridium botulinum secretes a potent neurotoxin that causes devastating effects when ingested, including paralysis and death if not treated. In the United States, some clinically significant strains produce toxin type A while also harboring a silent B gene. These are the first two closed genome sequences published for this subset.


