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[[Image:Botulism 3 type A.jpg|500px|These are Clostridium botulinum Type A colonies, Strain 2, grown on a 48hr blood agar plate.  The bacterium C. botulinum produces a nerve toxin, which causes the rare, but serious paralytic illness Botulism. There are seven types of botulism toxin designated by the letters A through G; only types A, B, E and F cause illness in humans.]]
[[Image:Botulism 3 type A.jpg|500px|These are Clostridium botulinum Type A colonies, Strain 2, grown on a 48hr blood agar plate.  The bacterium C. botulinum produces a nerve toxin, which causes the rare, but serious paralytic illness Botulism. There are seven types of botulism toxin designated by the letters A through G; only types A, B, E and F cause illness in humans.]]
[[Image:Botulism wound.jpg|500px|Wound botulism involvement of compound fracture of right arm.  14-year-old boy fractured his right ulna and radius and subsequently developed wound botulism.]]


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