Wound botulism in California, 1951-1998: recent epidemic in heroin injectors

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2000
California has reported most of the world's wound botulism (WB) cases and nearly three-fourths of the cases reported in the United States. We reviewed the clinical, epidemiologic, and laboratory features of WB. From the first case in 1951, through 1998, a total of 127 cases were identified-93 in the …
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Authors Werner SB;Passaro D;McGee J;Schechter R;Vugia DJ;;
Journal Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
Year 2000
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11049786
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injections National Center for Biotechnology Information NCBI NLM MEDLINE diagnosis humans pubmed abstract nih national institutes of health national library of medicine adult female male adolescent aged middle aged Child sex factors risk factors differential substance abuse disease outbreaks* california / epidemiology intravenous / complications* heroin dependence / complications* botulism / epidemiology* pmid:11049786 doi:10.1086/318134 s b werner d passaro d j vugia botulism / complications* botulism / diagnosis hispanic americans subcutaneous / adverse effects wound infection / complications* wound infection / diagnosis wound infection / epidemiology*

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