botulism(bŏchˈəlĭzˌəm), acute poisoning resulting from ingestion of food containing toxins produced by the bacillusClostridium botulinum.The bacterium can grow only in an anaerobic atmosphere, such as that found in canned foods. Consequently, botulism is almost always caused by preserve...
Food-borne botulism is acquired by ingestion of food contaminated with preformed toxin most commonly, home canned food. Signs and symptoms of acute overdose may be delayed up to 36 hours because incubation period for botulism is usually 18-36 hours after ingestion of food containing toxin. In ...
is recalling approximately 2,581,816 pounds of canned meat and poultry products due to a packaging defect that may cause the products to become contaminated without showing any outward signs of contamination, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced...
limited evidence available regarding risk to child during breastfeeding from person with botulism; signs and symptoms of botulism not reported in any breastfeeding infants 1Etiology and PathogenesisPathogen Clostridium botulinum 1, 2, 3, 4 anaerobic, spore-forming, gram-positive, rod-shaped bacillus ...
Signs and symptoms predictive of respiratory failure in patients with foodborne botulism in Thailand. We conducted a clinical study of 137 patients with home-canned bamboo shoot botulism at Nan Hospital, northern Thailand. The median age of the patients was... M Wongtanate,N Sucharitchan,K Tant...
Epidemiology, clinical signs, laboratorial and pathological findings in eight outbreaks of botulism in cattle in Rio Grande do Norte state, Northeastern Brazil. Discussion: The outbreaks of botulism in cattle from Rio Grande do Norte state were linked to the lack or inadequate mineral supplementation ...
Thesigns and symptomsof human botulism are essentially the same for all forms of the disease, whereas it is not clear which of the animal exposures is the more important or whether there is a difference inclinical features. View chapter ...
DIARRHEA, ACUTE ICD-9 001–009; ICD-10 A00–A09 Diarrhea is often accompanied by other clinical signs and symptoms including vomiting, fever, dehydration and electrolyte disturbances. It is a symptom of infection by many different bacterial, viral and parasitic enteric agents. The specific ...
Home-canned foods and Alaska Native foods are leading causes of U.S. foodborne botulism; botulism's epidemic potential renders each case a public health em... S Jeremy,T Nicole,S Alana,... - 《Emerging Infectious Diseases》 被引量: 298发表: 2004年 Signs and symptoms predictive of death ...
The most serious adverse effect of antitoxin is anaphylaxis. Per the FDA insert, patients should be carefully monitored for signs of Type I hypersensitivity reactions, especially if they have a history of asthma, hay fever, or allergic reaction to horses. Symptoms to watch for during and immediat...