Remembering botulism

Authors

  • Isabel Almasqué Assistente Hospitalar Graduada de Oftalmologia do Hospital de Santo António dos Capuchos, Lisboa

Keywords:

Clostridium, botulism, spore, toxin, acetyl-choline, accomodative paresis, diplopia, dysphagia, respiratory failure

Abstract

Based on her own case, the author makes some comments about food-born botulism, highlighting ftve main issues: 1) botulism is not so rare as we used to think; 2) It's mortality is far from being as high as we believed; 3) Not only typical in­ dustrial or home-canned food is related to this disease; 4) It's diagnosis is rare and difficult, mainly because it is not considered; 5) Patients affected by botulism are frequently labelled with other diagnoses.

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Published

1998-03-31

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Almasqué I. Remembering botulism. RPMI [Internet]. 1998 Mar. 31 [cited 2024 May 20];5(1):60-2. Available from: https://revista.spmi.pt/index.php/rpmi/article/view/2120

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Vol. 5 No. 1 (1998): Janeiro/ Março

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Apontamentos Clínicos

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