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2. Botulism : Causes, incidence, and risk factors
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Clostridium botulinum is found in soil and untreated water throughout the world. It produces spores that survive in improperly preserved or canned food, where they produce toxin. When eaten, even tiny amounts of this toxin can lead to severe poiso...• Reviewer: Arnold L. Lentnek, MD, Division of Infectious Disease, Kennestone Hospital, Marietta, GA. Review provided by VeriMed Healthcare Network.
3. Botulism
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Botulism is an acute, progressive condition caused by botulinum toxin, a natural poison produced by the spore-forming bacteria Clostridium botulinum . Exposure to the botulinum toxin usually occurs from eating contaminated food although, in infant...• Author: L. Lee Culvert, Janie F. Franz Expand your search to include all of U.S. News
4. JAMA -- Botulinum Toxin as a Biological Weapon: Medical and Public Health Management, February 28...
Selected Mimics and Misdiagnoses of Botulism* A large, unintentional outbreak of foodborne botulism caused. Wound botulism and intestinal botulism are infectious. heptavalent botulism immune globulin of equine origin during an outbreak of type E... http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/285/8/1059
5. Disease Listing, Botulism, General Information | CDC Bacterial, Mycotic Diseases
Foodborne botulism is caused by eating foods that contain the botulism toxin. The number of cases of foodborne and infant botulism has changed little in recent years, but wound botulism has increased because of the use of black-tar heroin,... http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dbmd/diseaseinfo/botulism_g.htm
6. FDA/CFSAN Bad Bug Book - Clostridium botulinum
Foodborne botulism (as distinct from wound botulism and infant botulism) is a severe type of food poisoning caused by the ingestion of foods containing the potent neurotoxin formed during growth of the organism. http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~mow/chap2.html |
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