Exempel på botulism

• It should be clearly understood that botulism is one of the very rare maladies. 

• To regard every can as a source of botulism is worse than regarding every dog as a source of hydrophobia. 

• The classical picture of botulism is of descending symmetrical flaccid paralysis with no fever.

• Although a number of patients developed altered mental status, none had focal neurological changes indicative of botulism or tetanus.

• A few will go to 2000 mu, with an increasing risk of causing systemic botulism, and also of provoking antitoxin antibodies (see below).

• There is a crucial role for reference laboratories in confirmation of botulism and tetanus and in speciation of non-perfringens clostridia.

• As with botulism, the amount of tetanus toxin is insufficient to induce immunity, so a patient who has recovered from tetanus requires prophylactic active immunization.

• Clostridium botulinum and the ophthalmologist : a review of botulism, including biological warfare ramifications of botulinum toxin.

• Surely they are putting the botch in botulism.

• They are only allowed where there is a proven need; for example, preservatives are needed to protect against serious microbiological risks such as botulism.

• There is no requirement to monitor for botulism toxin because botulism toxin occurs in isolated pockets and would not readily be detected.

• Botulism might flourish in conditions where competing micro-organisms have been destroyed by irradiation.

• The committee has no role in the handling of acute emergencies such as the recent outbreak of botulism.

• There will be more vigorous toxins which may increase the incidence of botulism.

• They had learnt nothing—having stopped research into salmonella, they compounded their folly by doing the same with botulism.

• In fact, the evidence to date of the present botulism outbreak points to a canned hazelnut preparation.

• Botulism is resistant to radiation because it is a spore-bearing organism.