Open AccessMolecular Weight of Type A Botulinum Toxin
Author(s) -
John N. Knox,
William P. Brown,
Leonard Spero
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
infection and immunity
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.508
H-Index - 220
eISSN - 1070-6313
pISSN - 0019-9567
DOI - 10.1128/iai.1.2.205-206.1970
Subject(s) - clostridium botulinum , biology , toxin , microbiology and biotechnology , isolation (microbiology) , clostridiaceae , botulism
Clostridium botulinum type A does not produce a 12,000 molecular weight toxin. The reported isolation of such a material by Gerwing et al. could not be confirmed.