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Clinical Infectious Diseases
Studies from C. Wheeler et al have provided new data on clinical infectious diseases
July 14th, 2009
According to a study from the United States, "California has an ongoing epidemic of wound botulism (WB) among injection drug users (IDUs). We retrospectively studied a cohort of patients with WB and determined the sensitivity of the mouse bioassay-the gold standard laboratory test for confirmation of botulism-in verifying WB." "We defined a clinical case of WB as an acute, bilateral, descending, flaccid paralysis starting with >= 1 cranial nerve palsies in an IDU with no other explainable diagnosis. We calculated the sensitivity of the mouse bioassay as the proportion of clinical WB cases that had positive serum toxin test results by mouse bioassay. We compared serum...
Source: Health Risk Factor Week (2009-07-14)
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