Talk:Clostridium botulinum
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Article Grading: The following comments were left by the quality and importance raters: (edit ยท refresh) I found the article confusing. It looks in this article that bacteria is not killed by heating food when in other web pages it looks it is possible http://www.hpa.org.uk/infections/topics_az/botulism/gen_inf.htm http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dbmd/diseaseinfo/botulism_g.htm#How%20can%20botulism%20be%20prevented Besides the last parragraphe looks confusing. The author explain that high sugar concentration doesnt let Clostridium to develop, but mixt with digestive apparatus of infant and fruits acid juices. Cordially Mary129.31.3.30 16:04, 16 July 2007 (UTC) |
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[edit] Ability to kill the spores?
The following paragraph appears in the text. It is ended by a "NOT!" reminiscent of Borat. Such an expression is not appropriate for a scientific article such as this one. Although I am not an expert on the subject, I also believe I read somewhere that it wasn't possible to kill the spores of the botulinum by pressurized boiling. Can anybody confirm this?
Clostridium botulinum is a soil bacterium. The spores can survive in most environments and are very hard to kill. They can survive the temperature of boiling water at sea level, thus many foods are canned with a pressurized boil that achieves an even higher temperature, sufficient to kill the spores.NOT!
[edit] Genome sequenced.
See Sanger or say New Scientist blurb etc. Needs to be mixed into article when people have time. Ttiotsw 15:05, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] They are anaerobic
"These rod-shaped organisms grow best in low-oxygen conditions." They are anaerobic. Not only facultatively. This sentence above can mislead the reader, because it suggests that they still grow even under high-oxygen conditions... Low oxygen conditions can be TOLERATED by them, which means something totally different. They are able to SURVIVE the presence of oxygen, because they have an enzyme called SOD (superoxide dismutase). Oxygen however is not something they like, it's actually quite toxic for them. Myrmeleon formicarius (talk) 20:18, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
Just to add some more sources than my own silly head: "Clostridium Facts Clostridium perfringens is a Gram-positive anaerobic spore-forming bacterium" I didn't have to go further for this sentence than the link at the external links of the article...
http://pathema.tigr.org/tigr-scripts/Clostridium/PathemaHomePage.cgi
- This article should be improved... Myrmeleon formicarius (talk) 20:47, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
