Global occurrence of infant botulism, 1976-2006

Pediatrics

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Koepke, Ruth ^a   Sobel, Jeremy ^b   Arnon, Stephen S ^a,c  

^a Infant Botulism Treatment and Prevention Program   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

BabyBIG; Botulinum toxin; Clostridium botulinum; Epidemiology; Human botulism immune globulin; Infant botulism

Indexed keywords

BOTULINUM ANTISERUM; BOTULINUM TOXIN; NEUROTOXIN;

ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BOTULISM; BULBAR PARALYSIS; CANADA; CANNED FOOD; CHILD HOSPITALIZATION; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM; CLOSTRIDIUM BUTYRICUM; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; DUST; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD POISONING; HEALTH SURVEY; HONEY; HUMAN; INFANT; ITALY; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE HYPOTONIA; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL MICROFLORA; UNITED STATES; WEAKNESS; AGE DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; BOTULISM; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 47749092693     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2007-1827     Document Type: Article

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