"Scientific name of bacterium causing food poisoning"
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Clostridium Botulinum
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Clostridium botulinum
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Clostridium leprae
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Clostridium pallidum
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Explanation
Clostridium botulinum is the bacterium responsible for botulism, a serious form of food poisoning. C. leprae causes leprosy and C. pallidum (actually Treponema pallidum) causes syphilis. Genus is capitalized, species is lowercase.