isolation and characterisation of neurotoxigenic clostridium butyricum from soil in china. | soil specimens collected from a site around the home of patients with food-borne type e. botulism probably caused by neurotoxigenic clostridium butyricum in guanyun, jiangsu province, china, were examined for the presence of neurotoxigenic c. butyricum. five lakeside sites of weishan lake, in an area near to the sites where the type e. botulism outbreaks caused by neurotoxigenic c. butyricum occurred were also surveyed. type e toxin-producing c. butyricum was isolated from soil from four sites i ... | 1999 | 9989640 |