Multiple choice softskills leadership

"Scientific name of bacterium causing food poisoning"

  1. Clostridium Botulinum

  2. Clostridium botulinum

  3. Clostridium leprae

  4. 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.