Clostridium botulinum is a rod-shaped bacterium that forms endospores and releases botulinum toxin, the cause of botulism food poisoning. In this phasecontrast micrograph, the endospores are the bright, oval objects located at the ends of the rods; some endospores have been released from the cells that formed them.
Author: Fazal Haq
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