Journal article
Type B Botulism Outbreak Caused by a Commercial Food Product: West Virginia and Pennsylvania, 1973
JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association, Vol.237(5), pp.456-459
01/31/1977
DOI: 10.1001/jama.1977.03270320034018
PMID: 576268
Abstract
In the week of May 7,1973, seven persons contracted botulism after eating together. The most common symptoms were vomiting, constipation, dry mouth, dysphagia, and dysphonia. All were treated with trivalent botulinal antitoxin, and none died. Serum specimens obtained from all seven patients were negative for botulinal toxin, but stool specimens from three patients were positive for type B toxin. Electromyographic studies performed on five patients documented the neurophysiologic abnormalities of botulism. Commercially canned peppers in oil were implicated epidemiologically, and type B toxin was identified in leftover peppers. The processor voluntarily recalled the pepper product, and no further cases were reported.(JAMA 237:456-459, 1977)
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Type B Botulism Outbreak Caused by a Commercial Food Product: West Virginia and Pennsylvania, 1973
- Creators
- William H BarkerJack B WeissmanVilus R DowellLudwig GutmannDonald A Kautter
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association, Vol.237(5), pp.456-459
- Publisher
- American Medical Association
- DOI
- 10.1001/jama.1977.03270320034018
- PMID
- 576268
- ISSN
- 0098-7484
- eISSN
- 1538-3598
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/31/1977
- Academic Unit
- Neurology
- Record Identifier
- 9984020609202771
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