Infant botulism acquired from household dust presenting as sudden infant death syndrome

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 511-513

  Nevas, Mari ^a   Lindström, Miia ^a   Virtanen, Antti ^a   Hielm, Sebastian ^a   Kuusi, Markku ^b   Arnon, Stephen S ^c   Vuori, Erkki ^a   Korkeala, Hannu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BOTULISM; CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM; DUST; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC SIMILARITY; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; INTESTINE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME; VACUUM;

BOTULINUM TOXINS; BOTULISM; CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM; DUST; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; HOUSING; HUMANS; INFANT; INTESTINES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA TECHNIQUE; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 11844301349     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.43.1.511-513.2005     Document Type: Article

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