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Type F Botulism Due to Neurotoxigenic Clostridium Baratii from an Unknown Source in an Adult

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Journal J Clin Microbiol
Specialty Microbiology
Date 1991 Nov 1
PMID 1774272
Citations 27
Authors
L M McCroskey
C L Hatheway
B A Woodruff
J A Greenberg
P Jurgenson
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Abstract

Type F botulism was confirmed in a 54-year-old male with signs compatible with botulism who reported to the emergency unit of a hospital. Botulinal neurotoxin was detected in the patient's serum and fecal specimens, and a neurotoxigenic organism whose physiologic characteristics correspond to those of Clostridium baratii was isolated. The toxin produced by the isolate was neutralized by type F botulinal antitoxin and cross-neutralized with lower efficiency by type E antitoxin. The patient's food history was not suggestive of botulism, and it seems likely that the illness was due to colonization of the gut.

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