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Botulinum progenitor toxins analyzed, characterization reported

Published in Health and Medicine Week, September 19th, 2005

A study from the United States has reported on the characterization of botulinum progenitor toxins by mass spectrometry.

"Botulinum toxin analysis has renewed importance. This study included the use of nanochromatography-nanoelectrospray-mass spectrometry/mass spectrometry to characterize the protein composition of botulinum progenitor toxins and to assign botulinum progenitor toxins to their proper serotype and strain by using currently available sequence information," wrote H.B. Hines and colleagues, U.S. Army Medical Research Institute.

"Clostridium botulinum progenitor toxins from strains Hall, Okra, Stockholm, MDPH, Alaska, and Langeland...

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