Difficulties in diagnosing food-borne botulism.
Botulism is a muscle-paralyzing disease caused by neurotoxins (types A-G) produced by the bacteria Clostridium botulinum. Symptoms of food-borne botulism most commonly appear 12-36 h after eating contaminated food, but the earliest neurological symptoms may in some cases start abruptly. Here, we report the cases of two patients with food-borne botulism who were admitted to the neurological emergency room as candidates for intravenous thrombolysis for acute stroke.
Departments of Neurology, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland.
Nina
N
Forss
Raimo
R
Ramstad
Tom
T
Bäcklund
Miia
M
Lindström
Elina
E
Kolho