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EPI Update, June 28, 2013 [PDF]
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This oral board case is appropriate for emergency medicine residents and medical students (with senior resident assistance) on emergency medicine rotation.Although a somewhat rare disease, infant botulism is a true pediatric emergency that carried a 90% rate of mortality prior to the development of an antitoxin.1 While botulism infections can be ...
Garispe, DO, Ashley, Cherry, MD, Steven
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Botulism outbreak in a rural Ethiopia: a case series
Background Foodborne botulism, a toxin-mediated illness caused by Clostridium botulinum, is a public health emergency. Types A, B, and E C. botulinum toxins commonly cause human disease.
Tigist Bacha +8 more
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Difficulties of differential diagnosis of botulism
The article presents the differential diagnosis of botulism with the most significant diseases similar to botulism, based on the classic symptoms of botulism: the connection of the disease with food intake, the absence of fever, progressive muscle ...
G. A. Kharchenko +2 more
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Immunological Characterization and Neutralizing Ability of Monoclonal Antibodies Directed Against Botulinum Neurotoxin Type H. [PDF]
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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Summary Borna disease is an acute to subacute, rarely chronic non‐purulent meningoencephaylomyelitis affecting mainly horses and sheep. This case series describes the clinical signs, diagnosis, treatment, outcome and post‐mortem findings of five horses and two donkeys with this condition. The equids affected were geldings or mares of various breeds and
I. L. Piotrowski, M. Hilbe, H. K. Junge
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Background: The recent unprecedented foodborne botulism outbreak in Saudi Arabia necessitated an assessment of healthcare workers' (HCWs) knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP).
Abdullah Alhuzaimi +16 more
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EPI Update, July 20, 2007 [PDF]
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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. Definitive diagnosis is often impractical or impossible, leading to diagnosis and treatment based on ...
Kali Slavik +2 more
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Four Cases of Food-Borne Botulism in a Family
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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