An Atypical Outbreak of Food-Borne Botulism Due to Clostridium botulinum Types B and E from Ham

International audienceAn outbreak of human botulism was due to consumption of ham containing botulinum neurotoxins B and E. A Clostridium botulinum type E strain isolated from ham was assigned to a new subtype (E12) based on bont/E gene sequencing and belongs to a new multilocus sequence subtype, as analyzed by whole-genome sequencing