Outbreak of wound botulism in injecting drug users
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Outbreak of wound botulism in injecting drug users in Germany, October-December 2005.
Between October and December 2005, 16 cases of wound botulism were notified to the health authorities of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. All patients were injecting drug users (IDU) and the epidemiological investigations suggested contaminated injection drugs as the most probable source of infection. Clostridium botulinum was cultivated from clinical samples of six patients and molecular typin...
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عنوان ژورنال: Epidemiology and Infection
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0950-2688,1469-4409
DOI: 10.1017/s0950268809002544