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All right, so we're talking about botulism, and botulism is caused by a neurotoxin secreted by a spore -producing bacteria called clostridium botulinum.
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So it grows in low acidic and low -oxygen condition.
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So botulinum looks something like this.
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This is a vegetative cell.
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Botulinum is a rod -shaped bacteria, and it can turn into a spore.
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And it does this from a vegetative cell.
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So typically it starts here.
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Then at some point, it starts the process of sporylation.
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So starts dividing like this.
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And then see something like this.
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And then the vegetative cell portion dies, and you're just left with the spore.
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Okay? so what does that mean for your questions, though? so let's say once you can your asparagus, what would you expect to microsoft to observe if you were to perform an endospore staining for a sample taken after boiling asparagus? all right, so we have the vegetative cell and we have the spore...