Systematic Veterinary Bacteriology and Mycology

HABITAT

• The endospores are widely distributed in soils and aquatic environment through out the world.
• The disease botulism is mainly due to the ingestion of preformed toxin.
• Germination of the endospores, with growth of vegetative cells and production of toxin, occurs in anaerobic situations such as contaminated cans of meat, fish or vegetables, carcases of invertebrate and vertebrate animals, rotting vegetation and baled silage.