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Early, Real-Time Medical Diagnosis of Botulism by Endopeptidase-Mass Spectrometry
Author(s) -
Osnat Rosen,
Liron Feldberg,
Sigalit Gura,
Tal BroshNissimov,
Alex Guri,
Oren Zimhony,
Eli Shapiro,
Adi Beth-Din,
Dana Stein,
Eyal Ozeri,
Ada Barnea,
Amram Turgeman,
Alon Ben David,
Arieh Schwartz,
Eytan Elhanany,
Eran Diamant,
Shmuel Yitzhaki,
Ran Zichel
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
clinical infectious diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44
H-Index - 336
eISSN - 1537-6591
pISSN - 1058-4838
DOI - 10.1093/cid/civ861
Subject(s) - botulism , medicine , endopeptidase , antitoxin , mass spectrometry , clostridium botulinum , microbiology and biotechnology , toxin , chromatography , enzyme , biology , chemistry , biochemistry
Botulinum toxin was detected in patient serum using Endopeptidase-mass-spectrometry assay, although all conventional tests provided negative results. Antitoxin was administered, resulting in patient improvement. Implementing this highly sensitive and rapid assay will improve preparedness for foodborne botulism and deliberate exposure.

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