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Genomic Epidemiology of Clostridium botulinum Isolates from Temporally Related Cases of Infant Botulism in New South Wales, Australia.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Sept 2015
McCallum Nadine, Gray Timothy J, Wang Qinning, Ng Jimmy, Hicks Leanne, Nguyen Trang, Yuen Marion, Hill-Cawthorne Grant A, Sintchenko Vitali
Abstract excerpt
Infant botulism is a potentially life-threatening paralytic disease that can be associated with prolonged morbidity if not rapidly diagnosed and treated. Four infants were diagnosed and treated for infant botulism in NSW, Australia, between May 2011 and August 2013. Despite the temporal relationship between the cases, there was no close geographical clustering or other epidemiological links. Clostridium botulinum...
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