Difficulties in diagnosing food-borne botulism

Nina Forss; Raimo Ramstad; Tom Bäcklund; Miia Lindström; Elina Kolho

doi:10.1159/000339736

Difficulties in diagnosing food-borne botulism

Nina Forss, Raimo Ramstad, Tom Bäcklund, Miia Lindström, Elina Kolho

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Abstract

Botulism is a muscle-paralyzing disease caused by neurotoxins (types A-G) produced by the bacteria Clostridium botulinum. Symptoms of food-borne botulism most commonly appear 12-36 h after eating contaminated food, but the earliest neurological symptoms may in some cases start abruptly. Here, we report the cases of two patients with food-borne botulism who were admitted to the neurological emergency room as candidates for intravenous thrombolysis for acute stroke.

Original language	English
Journal	Case Reports in Neurology
Volume	4
Issue number	2
Pages (from-to)	113-115
Number of pages	3
ISSN	1662-680X
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1159/000339736
Publication status	Published - 2012
MoE publication type	B1 Journal article

Fields of Science

413 Veterinary science
botulism
bulbar palsy
misdiagnosis
3112 Neurosciences
3121 General medicine, internal medicine and other clinical medicine

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