Infant Botulism
Infant Botulism: A 30-Year Experience Spanning the Introduction of Botulism Immune Globulin Intravenous in the Intensive Care Unit at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles
... with infant botulism were observed in the ICU and treated with supportive care ...for infant botulism that benefits both patients and parents and by decreasing ICU stay makes valuable ...
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Equine Botulinum Antitoxin for the Treatment of Infant Botulism
... of infant botulism consists in the admin- istration of botulinum ...rived botulism antitoxin (BabyBIG) exclusively for treatment of infant botulism (4, ...for infant ...
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Global Occurrence of Infant Botulism, 1976–2006
... those infant botulism cases that have a history of honey exposure or exposure to environmen- tal C botulinum spores is a less common means of acquir- ing the disease in these ...of infant bot- ulism ...
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Genomic Epidemiology of Clostridium botulinum Isolates from Temporally Related Cases of Infant Botulism in New South Wales, Australia
... Infant botulism is a potentially life-threatening paralytic disease that can be associated with prolonged morbidity if not rapidly diagnosed and ...for infant botulism in NSW, Australia, ...
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Examination of feces and serum for diagnosis of infant botulism in 336 patients
... botulinum isolated from 113 infants confirmed to have infant botulism and demonstration of botulinal toxin in their feces and serum Type of organism in feces.. Test for toxin in feces No[r] ...
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Catastrophic Presentation of Infant Botulism May Obscure or Delay Diagnosis
... with infant botulism are presented to illustrate how atypical, early, and severe features may obscure or delay ...first infant. In the second infant, severe acidosis and hypoglycemia suggested ...
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Genetic Characterization of Clostridium botulinum Associated with Type B Infant Botulism in Japan
... Infant botulism is neuromuscular paralysis caused by the botulinum neurotoxin (BoNT) produced in the intestines after the germination and outgrowth of ingested spores of Clostrid- ium botulinum, which is an ...
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Infant Botulism: Clinical Spectrum and Epidemiology
... Between 1977 and 1979, 12 cases of infant botulism were diagnosed in Utah, and 87 control patients (normal, nonbotulism neurologic disease, and nonbotul-.. ism systemic disease) were eva[r] ...
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Characterization of Clostridium botulinum Strains Associated with an Infant Botulism Case in the United Kingdom
... Kingdom infant botulism has been particularly rare, with only five previous confirmed single cases occurring in 1978 (1, 45), 1987 (2, 43), 1989 (29, 41), 1993 (3, 16), and 1994 (4, 5, ...of infant ...
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Clinical Mimics of Infant Botulism
... of infant botulism, 1 of 2 physician-investigators from CDHS traveled to the bed- side to evaluate the patient together with the attending physician; the decision to treat was made jointly, with informed ...
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Infant Botulism Effect of Clostridium and the Involvement of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS): Review
... foodborne botulism that is induced by ingestion of food containing botulinum toxins; wound botulism that is caused by growth and toxins production in vivo at the site of wound by infection of intravenous ...
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Infant Botulism: Is There an Association With Thiamine Deficiency?
... Infant botulism is an acute life-threatening condition and diagnosis is frequently ...with infant botulism and respiratory fail- ure, who quickly and favorably responded to thiamine ...
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Epidemiologic Study of Infant Botulism in Pennsylvania: Report of the Infant Botulism Study Group
... The number of cases of botulism that occurred by county, the clus- tering of cases in the counties surrounding Phila- delphia (case counties), and the near absence of cases in bordering [r] ...
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Atypical toxin variant of Clostridium botulinum type B associated with infant botulism
... Neutralization of the toxin, regardless of whether it was in the fecal extract, the enrichment cultures, or the pure cultures, required dilution of the sample to a point at which there w[r] ...
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Infant Botulism: A Review of 12 Years' Experience at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
... Group 1 pa- tients were able to maintain their natural airway, group 2 patients were intubated and received con- tinuous positive airway pressure but not mechanical ventilation, group 3 [r] ...
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Cultural and physiological characteristics and antimicrobial susceptibility of Clostridium botulinum isolates from foodborne and infant botulism cases
... Tests performed by both methods included those for esculin and starch hydrolysis, catalase, indole and derivatives, digestion of milk, and glucose fermentation.. The results of the conve[r] ...
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Syndrome of infant botulism
... Although no botulinal toxin was identified in the serum of the two patients, botulinal toxin type A was identified in fecal specimens of the first patient and botulinal toxin type B was [r] ...
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Clinical, Laboratory, and Environmental Features of Infant Botulism in Southeastern Pennsylvania
... of the infants we treated had ever received honey or corn syrup (which is also occasionally naturally contaminated with botulinal spores).’9 Samples of natural sweeteners consumed by six[r] ...
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Infant Botulism at 1 Week of Age: Report of Two Cases
... The following values were normal: blood cell count; serum levels of electrolytes, calcium, phosphorus, uric acid, creatinine, and am- mania; and blood urea nitrogen.. A chest radiograph [r] ...
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Botulism Handbook pdf
... Perhaps because infants are not able to complain about the early effects of botulinum intoxication, the neurologic dysfunction associated with infant botulism often seems to develop suddenly. The major ...
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