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Foodborne botulism due to ingestion of home-canned green beans: two case reports
Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2018 Background Foodborne botulism is a life-threatening, rapidly progressive disease. It has an incidence of less than 10 cases per year in Germany and mostly affects several previously healthy people at the same time.
Dorothea Hellmich +3 more
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Acute Bilateral Ophthalmoplegias [PDF]
, 1977 Bilateral ophthalmoplegia is that condition of weakness or paralysis involving one or more ocular muscles in each eye. Its sudden appearance due to an acute ocular myopathy is indeed unusual. Swash reported a single patient with acute necrotizing orbital
Selhorst, John B.
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International Journal of Food Properties, 2020 Foodborne botulism is a potentially fatal illness caused by consuming food with neurotropic exotoxins produced by Clostridium botulinum and other species capable of producing botulinum toxins. Its incidence in Poland has decreased but new cases are still
Joanna Krzowska-Firych +2 more
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MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report, 2010 CDC announces the availability of a new heptavalent botulinum antitoxin (HBAT, Cangene Corporation) through a CDC-sponsored Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Investigational New Drug (IND) protocol. HBAT replaces a licensed bivalent botulinum antitoxin AB and an investigational monovalent botulinum antitoxin E (BAT-AB and BAT-E, Sanofi Pasteur) with ...
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A rare symptom of foodborne botulism: dysgeusia. Case report and clinical review
Emergency Care JournalClostridium botulinum has become one of the most well-known microorganisms in medical history, thanks to both fatal botulism epidemics and the recent medical use of botulinum neurotoxin.
Simone Esposito +9 more
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Role of Homologous Fc Fragment in the Potency and Efficacy of Anti‐Botulinum Antibody Preparations
Toxins, 2017 The only approved treatment for botulism relies on passive immunity which is mostly based on antibody preparations collected from hyper‐immune horses. The IgG Fc fragment is commonly removed from these heterologous preparations to reduce the incidence of
Amram Torgeman +9 more
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Cranial Neuropathies and Neuromuscular Weakness: A Case of Mistaken Identity
Clinical Practice and Cases in Emergency Medicine, 2017 We describe a case of wound botulism initially thought to represent Miller-Fisher variant Guillain-Barré syndrome (MFS). Botulism classically presents with the so-called “four D’s” (diplopia, dysarthria, dysphagia, dry mouth) with symmetric, descending ...
Daniel Z. Adams +2 more
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Four Cases of Food-Borne Botulism in a Family
پزشکی بالینی ابن سینا, 2002 Botulism is caused by a neurotoxin produced from the anaerobic, Spore-forming bacterium clostridium botulinum. Botulism have four clinical forms:1)Food –borne botulism 2)Wound botulism 3)Infant botulism 4)undetermined botulism, that the
Fariba Keramat
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PLoS ONE, 2019 BACKGROUND:Botulism is a rare, serious, and sometimes fatal paralytic illness caused by exposure to neurotoxins produced by Clostridium botulinum bacteria.
Deborah M Anderson +5 more
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The Environment-Dependent Regulatory Landscape of the E. coli Genome [PDF]
arXivAll cells respond to changes in both their internal milieu and the environment around them through the regulation of their genes. Despite decades of effort, there remain huge gaps in our knowledge of both the function of many genes (the so-called y-ome) and how they adapt to changing environments via regulation.
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