Botulism during SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: The importance of differential diagnoses

Botulism is a neuroparalytic syndrome caused by a neurotoxin produced by Clostridium botulinum. We describe a patient with neurological symptoms associated with intoxication by Clostridium botulinum and infection by SARSCoV2. This report underlines that it is mandatory, even in case of SARS-CoV-2 po...

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Autores principales: Gatto, Antonio, Pulitanò, Silvia Maria, Conti, Giorgio, Soave, Paolo Maurizio, Di Sarno, Lorenzo, Chiaretti, Antonio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Ltd. 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8149469/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34051376
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anaerobe.2021.102389
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author Gatto, Antonio
Pulitanò, Silvia Maria
Conti, Giorgio
Soave, Paolo Maurizio
Di Sarno, Lorenzo
Chiaretti, Antonio
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description Botulism is a neuroparalytic syndrome caused by a neurotoxin produced by Clostridium botulinum. We describe a patient with neurological symptoms associated with intoxication by Clostridium botulinum and infection by SARSCoV2. This report underlines that it is mandatory, even in case of SARS-CoV-2 positivity, to investigate all the causes of a clinical pattern.
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spelling pubmed-81494692021-05-26 Botulism during SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: The importance of differential diagnoses Gatto, Antonio Pulitanò, Silvia Maria Conti, Giorgio Soave, Paolo Maurizio Di Sarno, Lorenzo Chiaretti, Antonio Anaerobe Case Report Botulism is a neuroparalytic syndrome caused by a neurotoxin produced by Clostridium botulinum. We describe a patient with neurological symptoms associated with intoxication by Clostridium botulinum and infection by SARSCoV2. This report underlines that it is mandatory, even in case of SARS-CoV-2 positivity, to investigate all the causes of a clinical pattern. Elsevier Ltd. 2021-08 2021-05-26 /pmc/articles/PMC8149469/ /pubmed/34051376 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anaerobe.2021.102389 Text en © 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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Pulitanò, Silvia Maria
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Soave, Paolo Maurizio
Di Sarno, Lorenzo
Chiaretti, Antonio
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34051376
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anaerobe.2021.102389
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