Botulism type E outbreak associated with eating a beached whale, Alaska

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1685-1687

  McLaughlin, Joseph B ^a,c   Sobel, Jeremy ^a   Lynn, Tracey ^b   Funk, Elizabeth ^c   Middaugh, John P ^c  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c Alaska Department Health and Social Services   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTULINUM ANTISERUM; BOTULINUM TOXIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BIOASSAY; BOTULISM; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIC; ESKIMO; FEMALE; FLACCID PARALYSIS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; TOXIN ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; WHALE;

EID: 4444220089     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1009.040131     Document Type: Article

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