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A summary of surveillance, morbidity and microbiology of laboratory-confirmed cases of infant botulism in Canada, 1979–2019 [PDF]

Canada Communicable Disease Report, 2021
Background: Infant botulism is a rare toxicoinfectious disease caused by colonization of the infant’s intestine with botulinum neurotoxin-producing clostridia (i.e. Clostridium botulinum or neurotoxigenic strains of C. butyricum or C. baratii).
Richard Harris, Christine Tchao, Natalie Prystajecky, Jennifer Cutler, John W Austin   +4 more
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Prevalence, Risk Factors, and Epidemiology of Food-borne Botulism in Iran

Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health, 2020
Background: Botulism is a severe neuroparalytic disease caused by toxins produced by several Clostridium species. This work presents the surveillance results of botulism in Iran, with the distribution of the cases by regions and by vehicle of ...
Mohammad Reza Montazer Khorasan, Mohammad Rahbar, Abed Zahedi Bialvaei, Mohammad Mehdi Gouya, Fereshte Shahcheraghi, Babak Eshrati   +5 more
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Adverse Drug Reaction Study of Botulinum Toxin‐A in the Real World [PDF]

J Cosmet Dermatol
ABSTRACT Background Despite the increasing use of botulinum toxin type A (BoNT‐A) in aesthetic and therapeutic applications, its real‐world adverse drug reaction (ADR) profile remains incompletely characterized. Current evidence relies largely on small‐scale clinical observations rather than large, systematic analyses.
Gu J, Sun Y, Chen K, Wang J, Lu B, Xie H, Liu X, Huang C, Jian X, Yu B.   +9 more
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Equine botulism

Equine Veterinary Journal
Abstract Botulism is a severe and often fatal disease in equine patients worldwide. Clostridium botulinum is a ubiquitous soil organism which produces a potent neurotoxin resulting in neuromuscular blockade and flaccid paralysis in affected animals.
Kali Slavik, Robert Whitlock, Amy Johnson   +2 more
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Epidemiology of Foodborne Botulism Outbreaks in Romania, 2007-2024. [PDF]

Microorganisms
Enciu BG, Popescu R, Zaharia AD, Schimmer B, Pițigoi D, Sîrbu AM, Pistol A.   +6 more
europepmc   +3 more sources

Botulism [PDF]

Journal of Education and Teaching in Emergency Medicine, 2021
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Thompson, John, Horowitz, Zane, Blumenberg, Adam   +2 more
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BOTULISM [PDF]

Nursing, 1982
MARILYN A. RODERICK
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Botulinum Neurotoxin-C Detection Using Nanostructured Porous Silicon Interferometer

Chemosensors, 2021
Botulinum neurotoxins (BoNT) are the most potent toxins, which are produced by Clostridium bacteria and cause the life-threatening disease of botulism in all vertebrates.
Dashananda Nanda Kumar, Zina Baider, Daniel Elad, Shlomo E. Blum, Giorgi Shtenberg   +4 more
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Mild Botulism From Illicitly Brewed Alcohol in a Large Prison Outbreak in Mississippi

Frontiers in Public Health, 2021
Botulism is typically described as a rapidly progressing, severe neuroparalytic disease. Foodborne botulism is transmitted through consuming food or drink that has been contaminated with botulinum toxin.
Mariel Marlow, Leslie Edwards, Lindsey McCrickard, Louise K. Francois Watkins, Jannifer Anderson, Sheryl Hand, Kathryn Taylor, Janet Dykes, Paul Byers, Kevin Chatham-Stephens   +9 more
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Botulism in the Astrakhan region: a retrospective study

Детские инфекции (Москва), 2022
The average number of annually registered cases of botulism in the Russian Federation is 300. At the same time, there is an increase in the number of deaths to 26 per year.Materials and methods.
G. A. Kharchenko, O. G. Kimirilova, A. A. Kimirilov   +2 more
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