Which organism produces a toxin which blocks neuro- muscular transmission in cholinergic motor nerves?
a. Clostridium botulinum
b. Clostridium tetani
c. Corynebacterium diphtheriae
d. Shigella dysenteriae
e. Vibrio cholerae.
The bacterium Clostridium botulinum have a rod-like form (also called C. botulinum ). Since they lack oxygen, they can only survive and grow anaerobically
