| Title | Clinical recovery and circulating botulinum toxin type F in adult patient. | | Author(s) | Sobel J, Dill T, Kirkpatrick CL, Riek L, Luedtke P, Damrow TA | | Institution | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA. jsobel@cdc.gov | | Source | Emerg Infect Dis 2009 Jun; 15(6):969-71. | | Abstract | A 56-year-old woman in Helena, Montana, USA, who showed clinical signs of paralysis, received antitoxins to botulinum toxins A, B, and E within 24 hours; nevertheless, symptoms progressed to complete quadriplegia. On day 8, she began moving spontaneously, even though blood tests later showed botulinum toxin type F remained. | | Language | eng | | Pub Type(s) | Journal Article
| | PubMed ID | 19523306 |
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