Difficulties in Diagnosing Food-Borne Botulism
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Difficulties in Diagnosing Food-Borne Botulism
Botulism is a muscle-paralyzing disease caused by neurotoxins (types A-G) produced by the bacteria Clostridium botulinum. Symptoms of food-borne botulism most commonly appear 12-36 h after eating contaminated food, but the earliest neurological symptoms may in some cases start abruptly. Here, we report the cases of two patients with food-borne botulism who were admitted to the neurological emer...
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عنوان ژورنال: Case Reports in Neurology
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1662-680X
DOI: 10.1159/000339736