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Outbreak of Foodborne Botulism in Alexandria, Egypt: Modulating Indications for Administration of Heptavalent Botulinum Antitoxin

2021-03-22

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<title>Abstract</title> <p><bold>Background: </bold>In October 2019, 94 patients were admitted into Alexandria Poison Center (APC) with a history of ingestion of Feseekh (salted fish). As a trial to allocate the resources, not all patients were given Heptavalent botulinum antitoxin (HBAT) immediately.<bold>The current study aimed to </bold>portray the clinical characteristics of the cases, explore the possible re...

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Literature Corpus work: c8102e93-0c3a-512f-b10b-b0396f455644
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-267943/v1

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