BOTULISM AS A FOOD POISONING: WHAT IS IT?

Document Type : Original Article

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1 Military Medical Academy, Egypt.

2 Department of Nursing Administration, Faculty of Nursing, Cairo University, Egypt.

3 Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo 11566, Egypt.

Abstract

Botulism is a rare but potentially life-threatening neuroparalytic syndrome resulting from the action of a neurotoxin elaborated by the microorganism Clostridium botulinum. This disease has a lengthy history; the first investigation of botulism occurred in the 1820s with a case report on hundreds of patients with "sausage poisoning" in a southern German
town. Several decades later in Belgium, the association was demonstrated between a neuromuscular paralysis and ham infected by a spore forming bacillus that was isolated from the ham. The organism was named Bacillus botulinus after the Latin word for sausage, botulus.

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Journal of the Egyptian Society of Parasitology
Volume 44, Issue 1
April 2014
Pages 211-220

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