title: Botulism as a food poisoning: what is it?
abstract: Botulism is a rare but potentially life-threatening neuroparalytic syndrome resulting from the action of a neurotoxin elaborated by the microorganism Clostridium botulinum. This disease has a lengthy history; the first investigation of botulism occurred in the 1820s with a case report on hundreds of patients with "sausage poisoning" in a southern German town. Several decades later in Belgium, the association was demonstrated between a neuromuscular paralysis and ham infected by a spore forming bacillus that was isolated from the ham. The organism was named Bacillus botulinus after the Latin word for sausage, botulus.
authors: Mamdouh M
authors: MM
authors: El-Bahnasawy
authors: Nagwa Zein-El-Abdeen
authors: NZ
authors: Aly
authors: Magda Abdel Hameed
authors: MA
authors: Abdel-Fattah
authors: Tosson A
authors: TA
authors: Morsy
mesh_terms: D001905:Botulinum Toxins / Q000633:toxicity*; D001906:Botulism / Q000473:pathology*; D005506:Food Contamination; D006801:Humans
chemical_list: D001905:Botulinum Toxins