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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, Paerregaard, O, Angen, M, Lisby, K, Mølbak, M E, Clausen, J J, Christensen   +5 more
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Infant Botulism [PDF]

Journal of education & teaching in emergency medicine, 2023
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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BOTOX injection to treat strabismus after infant botulism type B infection [PDF]

American Journal of Ophthalmology Case Reports, 2020
Purpose: The significance of botulinum toxin to ophthalmologists is twofold. Botulism, a medical emergency, frequently presents with ocular findings including blurred vision, diplopia, ptosis, and photophobia as a result of the neurotoxin produced by ...
Sarah G. Bonaffini, Victoria Cocozza, Jing Jin   +2 more
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Infant Botulism: a network to improve the diagnosis and treatment of a rare and under-diagnosed disease

Emergency Care Journal, 2008
Infant Botulism is a form of human botulism in which ingested spores of Clostridium botulinum germinate, colonize the infant’s colon, in which they produce botulinum neurotoxin.
Davide Lonati, Carlo Locatelli, Stefania Bigi, Sarah Vecchio, Valeria Petrolini, Andrea Giampreti, Lucia Fenicia, Dario De Medici, Luigi Manzo   +8 more
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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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Genomic and Phenotypic Characterization of Clostridium botulinum Isolates from an Infant Botulism Case Suggests Adaptation Signatures to the Gut

mBio, 2022
In early life, the immature human gut microbiota is prone to colonization by pathogens that are usually outcompeted by mature microbiota in the adult gut.
François P. Douillard, Yağmur Derman, Cédric Woudstra, Katja Selby, Tommi Mäklin, Martin B. Dorner, Harri Saxén, Brigitte G. Dorner, Hannu Korkeala, Miia Lindström   +9 more
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First confirmed case of infant botulism in Africa, caused by a dual-toxin-producing Clostridium botulinum strain

International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2021
Botulism, a rare life-threatening toxemia, is probably underdiagnosed in all of its forms in Africa. This study reports the first laboratory-supported case of infant botulism on the African continent.
Marné N. Vosloo, Christoffel J. Opperman, Hermanus D.W. Geyer, Grace M. Setshedi, Mushal Allam, Stanford Kwenda, Arshad Ismail, Zamantungwa T.H. Khumalo, Adrian J. Brink, John A. Frean, Jennifer Rossouw   +10 more
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Infant Botulism

Journal of Education and Teaching in Emergency Medicine, 2022
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Morris, Victoria, Wians, Robert, Wilson, Jessica, Stevens, Gowri   +3 more
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Infant botulism [PDF]

Journal of Perinatology, 2007
Infant botulism results from the absorption of heat-labile neurotoxin produced in situ by ingested Clostridium botulinum. Honey and environmental exposure are the main sources of acquisition of the organism. Clinical manifestations are owing to progressive neuromuscular blockade, initially of muscles innervated by cranial nerves and later of the trunk,
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Exploring the genetic background of the botulism neurotoxin BoNT/B2 in Spain

Microbiology Spectrum, 2023
To determine whether the neurotoxin BoNT/B2 causing botulism in Spain is clonal, the genetic diversity and phylogenetic relationships of Clostridium botulinum from food-borne episodes and infant cases of the condition were explored.
Sylvia Valdezate, Gema Carrasco, María J. Medina, Noelia Garrido, Silvia del Pino, Monica Valiente, María P. Pallarés, Pilar Villalon   +7 more
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