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To enhance the health care clinician’s ability to recognize and manage botulism patients efficiently and expeditiously and to provide to the health care community (hospital and alternative care facility), a series of patient care templates that will assist in the efficacious triage, treatment, and monitoring of these patients during a mass casualty incident.

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Infant Botulism Type E

Category: Infant botulism |

J Clin Microbiol. 2009 Nov 11. [Epub ahead of print]

First infant botulism case due to Clostridium botulinum

type E worldwide.

Lúquez C, Dykes JK, Yu PA, Raphael BH, Maslanka SE.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

Clostridium botulinum type E has been associated with botulism in adults, but never in infants. Infant botulism type E cases have been associated with neurotoxigenic strains of C. butyricum. We report the first infant botulism case due to C. botulinum type E worldwide

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