TY - JOUR
AU - Faich, Gerald A.
AB - THE JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES • VOL. 124, NO. I • JUt Y 1971 © 1971 by the University of Chicago. All rights reserved. NEWS Onset of signs and symptoms can begin as soon From the Center for Disease Control as 6 hr, or as late as eight days, after ingestion of contaminated food; the usual time lapse is 18 to 36 hr [2]. Generally, patients with short incuba­ Botulism is rare in the United States, but because tion periods (i.e. less than 24 hr) are more se­ it can rapidly cause death and because commer­ verely affected, have more protracted courses, and cial food products can serve as vehicles of trans­ are more likely to die [3, 4]. Severity of illness mission, a case of botulism is both a medical and and shorter periods of incubation correlate with an epidemiologic emergency. In the past decade, the amount of toxin ingested; however, patients the Center for Disease Control has received re­ have died of botulism after only tasting a small ports of 181 cases in 79 outbreaks, an average of piece of bean pod or asparagus containing large 18 cases and eight outbreaks per year [1]. Because amounts of 
TI - Diagnosis and Treatment of Botulism
JF - The Journal of Infectious Diseases
DO - 10.1093/infdis/124.1.108
DA - 1971-07-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/diagnosis-and-treatment-of-botulism-u65Tjhs1LE
SP - 108
EP - 112
VL - 124
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
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