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Adult Intestinal Toxemia Botulism

Toxins, 2020
Intoxication with botulinum neurotoxin can occur through various routes. Foodborne botulism results after consumption of food in which botulinum neurotoxin-producing clostridia (i.e., Clostridium botulinum or strains of Clostridium butyricum type E or ...
Richard A. Harris, Fabrizio Anniballi, John W. Austin   +2 more
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Infant Botulism: Checklist for Timely Clinical Diagnosis and New Possible Risk Factors Originated from a Case Report and Literature Review

Toxins, 2021
Infant botulism is a rare and underdiagnosed disease caused by BoNT-producing clostridia that can temporarily colonize the intestinal lumen of infants less than one year of age.
Robertino Dilena, Mattia Pozzato, Lucia Baselli, Giovanna Chidini, Sergio Barbieri, Concetta Scalfaro, Guido Finazzi, Davide Lonati, Carlo Alessandro Locatelli, Alberto Cappellari, Fabrizio Anniballi   +10 more
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Infant botulism in Costa Rica: first report from Central America

Journal of Infection in Developing Countries, 2014
Introduction: Clostridium botulinum is known to cause descending paralysis in infants throughout the world. Methodology: The subject of this study was a three-month-old Costa Rican boy who was hospitalized because of poor suction and feeding, hypotonia,
Marcela Hernandez-de Mezerville, Mariela Rojas-Solano, Alfonso Gutierrez-Mata, Laura Hernandez-Con, Rolando Ulloa-Gutierrez   +4 more
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Human Botulism in France, 1875–2016

Toxins, 2020
Botulism is a rare but severe disease which is characterized by paralysis and inhibition of secretions. Only a few cases had been reported at the end of the 19th century in France.
Christine Rasetti-Escargueil, Emmanuel Lemichez, Michel R. Popoff   +2 more
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Workshop on the risks associated with animal botulism and ANIBOTNET final meeting [PDF]

, 2020
A workshop on the risks associated with animal botulism was held in Maisons-Alfort, France in March 2019. The objectives were to debate the public and animal health risks related to botulism, to disseminate the results obtained from the ANIBOTNET project
Seyboldt, Christian, Lindström, Miia, Koene, Miriam, Bano, Luca, Bilei, Stefano, Derman, Yağmur, Anniballi, Fabrizio, Tevell Åberg, Annica, Le Maréchal, Caroline, Chemaly, Marianne, Dorner, Martin B., Hedeland, Mikael   +11 more
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Diversity of the Genomes and Neurotoxins of Strains of Clostridium botulinum Group I and Clostridium sporogenes Associated with Foodborne, Infant and Wound Botulism

Toxins, 2020
Clostridium botulinum Group I and Clostridium sporogenes are closely related bacteria responsible for foodborne, infant and wound botulism. A comparative genomic study with 556 highly diverse strains of C. botulinum Group I and C.
Jason Brunt, Arnoud H. M. van Vliet, Andrew T. Carter, Sandra C. Stringer, Corinne Amar, Kathie A. Grant, Gauri Godbole, Michael W. Peck   +7 more
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Infant Botulism and Honey

EDIS, 2013
Since honey is a potential and avoidable source of Clostridium botulinum spores, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the American Academy of Pediatricsm and the National Honey Board recommend that honey not be given to infants younger than 12 ...
Malcolm T. Sanford, Eddie Atkinson, Jeanette Klopchin, Jamie Ellis   +3 more
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Infant botulism: an underestimated problem. A review [PDF]

Терапевтический архив
The article is devoted to a form of botulism that has been little studied in our country and is registered exclusively in infants. The fundamental difference between this form and the most common foodborne botulism is that infants become infected by ...
Valeri A. Malov, Viktor V. Maleev, Vladimir P. Chulanov, Denis S. Sarksyan   +3 more
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Case of infant botulism

Детские инфекции (Москва), 2020
Presents a clinical case, demonstrating the complexity of differential diagnosis of botulism of a child on the first year of life. The tactic of laboratory research, the therapy and the clinical result of the treatment was described.
A. A. Andreeva, I. A. Kutishcheva, G. P. Martynova, N. A. Vlasova, T. S. Kartel, A. N. Alekseenko, M. P. Konchakov   +6 more
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Genomic Characterization of Strains From a Cluster of Infant Botulism Type A in a Small Town in Colorado, United States

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2021
Three cases of infant botulism were reported in a small Colorado town between 1981 and 1984. The first two cases occurred in 1981, 6 months apart, and the third case occurred in 1984. Clostridium botulinum type A was isolated from stool of all three case
Lori Gladney, Jessica L. Halpin, Carolina Lúquez   +2 more
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