Badhey H, Cleri DJ, D'Amato RF, Vernaleo JR, Veinni V, Tessler J, Wallman AA, Mastellone AJ, Giuliani M, Hochstein L. Two fatal cases of type E adult food-borne botulism with early symptoms and terminal neurologic signs.
J Clin Microbiol 1986;
23:616-8. [PMID:
3514662 PMCID:
PMC268705 DOI:
10.1128/jcm.23.3.616-618.1986]
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Abstract
Type E botulism, one of the least common forms of botulinal intoxication on the East Coast of the United States, is described for two elderly patients with chronic underlying disease. Both patients consumed tainted kapchunka, a salted, ungutted whitefish. Gastrointestinal symptoms and signs were prominent, but neurologic complaints, although noted soon after the consumption of the fish in one patient, did not progress until late in the course of the patient's illness. One patient exhibited both urinary retention, which was reported mainly in one outbreak of type E botulism (M.G. Koenig, A. Spickard, M.A. Cardella, and D.E. Rogers, Medicine [Baltimore] 43:517-545, 1964), and muscular fasciculations, which have been rarely reported.
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