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Botulism in the 21st Century: A Scoping Review
Brown Journal of Hospital Medicine, 2023 Botulism is a potentially deadly neuroparalytic disease that affects all age groups; it is highly challenging to diagnose due to its nonspecific symptoms. Infant botulism is the most common form of botulism in the United States, followed by foodborne and
Ketino Kobaidze, Zanthia Wiley
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Facilitatory actions of guanidine on synaptic transmission in mammalian brain slices [PDF]
, 1979 Guanidine administration may be beneficial in the treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and related diseases; however, the actions of guanidine on the mammalian central nervous system have not been investigated.
Galvan, Martin +2 more
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Local outbreak of foodborne botulism in Krasnoyarsk
Детские инфекции (Москва), 2023 Botulism is a serious infectious disease that has not lost its relevance today. Due to the widespread popularity of home canning, botulism is widespread everywhere, more often recorded in the form of sporadic cases and small (local) outbreaks.
G. P. Martynova +7 more
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Denmark: Botulism in an infant or infant botulism? [PDF]
Eurosurveillance, 2008 A 4.5 months old, previously healthy Danish girl was admitted to a paediatric department after six days of passive behaviour and weak suck. Over the next days she became increasingly weak, developed bilateral ptosis, the muscle stretch reflexes were lost, and mydriasis with slow pupillary responses was noted.
A Pærregaard +5 more
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Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Innovations, Quality & Outcomes, 2018 The cholinergic heat-labile neurotoxin produced by Clostridium species is primarily responsible for the clinical manifestations of botulism. The classic phenotypic presentation of botulism consists of subacute descending flaccid paralysis with intact ...
Pramod K. Guru, MBBS, MD +6 more
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Clinical cases of atypical and severe botulism
Zaporožskij Medicinskij Žurnal, 2020 The aim of the work was to present two clinical cases of botulism: the atypical course and the severe course with late administration of heptavalent botulinum antitoxin, which still had a significant positive clinical effect and contributed to a faster ...
O. L. Ivakhiv, N. Yu. Vyshnevska
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Immunological Characterization and Neutralizing Ability of Monoclonal Antibodies Directed Against Botulinum Neurotoxin Type H. [PDF]
, 2016 BackgroundOnly Clostridium botulinum strain IBCA10-7060 produces the recently described novel botulinum neurotoxin type H (BoNT/H). BoNT/H (N-terminal two-thirds most homologous to BoNT/F and C-terminal one-third most homologous to BoNT/A) requires ...
Arnon, Stephen S +5 more
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Cluster of Botulism among dutch tourists in Turkey, june 2008 [PDF]
, 2010 In June 2008, three Dutch tourists participating in a mini-cruise in Turkey needed urgent repatriation for antitoxin treatment because of symptoms of botulism.
Ouwerkerk, M., van +2 more
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Diversity and assembly of the microbiome of a leguminous plant along an urbanization gradient
Oikos, EarlyView.Interactions between plants and bacterial communities are essential for host physiology and broader ecosystem functioning, but plant–microbiome interactions can be disrupted by environmental change like urbanization. Here, we evaluated how urbanization affected the diversity and assembly of soil and white clover Trifolium repens microbiome communities.
David Murray‐Stoker +2 more
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An Outbreak of Foodborne Botulism in Ontario
Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2003 Botulism is a rare paralytic illness resulting from a potent neurotoxin produced by Clostridium botulinum. Botulism in Canada is predominately due to C botulinum type E and affects mainly the First Nations and Inuit populations.
Mona R Loutfy +3 more
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