The main ingredient is something called botulism toxin A. The toxin is suppose to be a protein but after I looked‚ further into what it was I found that it is acutely a type of poison. It is the same toxin that causes severe food poisoning. Botox is given by an injection or also known as‚ a shot the shot is given into one or more muscles. The doctor is the one who decides what
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pharmaceutical firm named Allergan. It is founded in 1950‚ Allergan‚ Inc. in Irvine‚ California. Allergan is a multi-specialty health care company that discovers‚ develops and commercializes medical products. Botox is protein derived from botulism toxin that is injected underneath skin in order to minimize or smooth outlines and wrinkles on the face. Allergan was just a small firm until the firm started selling Botox‚ which was a revolution for the company. Botox has gained in popularity over the
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Clostridium tetani From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search Clostridium tetani | | Clostridium tetani with characteristic ’tennis racket ’ appearance. | Scientific classification | Kingdom: | Bacteria | Phylum: | Firmicutes | Class: | Clostridia | Order: | Clostridiales | Family: | Clostridiaceae | Genus: | Clostridium | Species: | C. tetani | Binomial name | Clostridium tetani Flügge‚ 1881 | Clostridium tetani is a rod-shaped‚ anaerobic bacterium
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spores exposed to low oxygen and certain temperature‚ they produce botulinum toxin‚ able to germinate‚ metabolize‚ food sources through an aerobic respiration to produce toxin. The toxin blocks the release of acetylcholine from motor nerve endings causing paralysis symptoms. The botulism either food born‚ eating contaminated home-canned foods where the fermentation takes place. or through abrasion in the body skin where the Clostridium bacteria can infect the wound releasing the neurotoxin‚ this has
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Clostridium Difficile | | Clostridium Difficile is a Gram-positive‚ toxin-producing anaerobic bacterium belonging to the family Clostridiaceae of the Clostridiales. Though strictly oxygen-intolerant‚ C. Difficile is able to produce aero tolerant endospores under unfavorable conditions that are capable of persisting in an open environment for years. C. Difficile is a commensalist species typically housed in the colonic fecal flora of a fairly small subset of the child population‚ with the number
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Jaime Vonk Med. Careers PCT 1 October 14‚ 2012 Clostridium Difficile Clostridium difficile is a gram positive‚ spore forming anaerobic bacillus‚ which may or may not carry the genes for toxin A-B production. These two types of protein exotoxins produced by the Clostridium difficile bacillus‚ toxin A and toxin B‚ can have an infectious form and a non-active‚ non-infectious form. The disease spreads throughThe spores can survive for a longer period of time in the environment and are not infectious
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Diagnosis of Clostridium Difficile INTRODUCTION Clostridium Difficile Infection is currently the most commonly found cause of diarrhoea in relation to antibiotic treatments in hospitals. Although C.difficile infections are common‚ there are only a limited methods of diagnosing accurately if a patient has been affected. I will be discussing methods of diagnosis‚ pros and cons and statistical facts regarding C.difficile infection. METHODS OF LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS There are several methods
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Clostridium difficile Babe Ruth 06/23/2011 Microbiology Clostridium difficile I. What is Clostridium difficile and why is it relevant to us? A.“Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) is a bacterium that may develop due to the prolonged use of antibiotics during healthcare treatments.” 1 B. “Clostridium difficile is an obligate anaerobe or microaerophilic‚ gram-positive‚ spore- forming‚ rod-shaped bacillus.” 2 II. What are the signs and symptoms of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI)?
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Foodborne Illness Week 4 Laura Shepherd SCI/163 November 26‚ 2012 Raymond Kahler Foodborne Illness Week 4 Clostridium perfringens One of the most common foodborne illnesses in the United States is Clostridium perfringens (C.perfringens). According to the Center for Disease Control‚ it is responsible for approximately one million cases of foodborne illness each year (Center for Disease Control‚ 2011). This bacterium is an anaerobic gram-positive bacterium. This means that it requires little
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Clostridium Perfringens Clostridium perfringens (formerly known as C. welchii‚ or Bacillus welchii) is a Gram-positive‚ rod- shaped‚ anaerobic‚ spore-forming bacterium of the genus Clostridium. C. perfringens is ever present in nature and can be found as a normal component of decaying vegetation‚ marine sediment‚ the intestinal tract of humans and other vertebrates‚ insects‚ and soil. Infections due to C. perfringens show evidence of tissue necrosis‚ bacteremia‚ emphysematous cholecystitis
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