Botulism is an uncommon, potentially fatal para­lytic disease caused by a protein neurotoxin that is produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum.

The disease is most frequently seen as a foodborne intoxication first clearly documented in the early nineteenth century; however, two other forms of the disease have been identified in the latter part of the twentieth century: wound botulism and infant botulism.

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