Open AccessTemporal cluster of wound botulism in the United Kingdom
Author(s) -
Sarah J. O’Brien,
Alasdair Reid,
A C de Benoist
Publication year - 2002
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 9999-1233
DOI - 10.2807/esw.06.09.02033-en
Subject(s) - botulism , communicable disease , cluster (spacecraft) , public health , environmental health , medicine , biology , microbiology and biotechnology , pathology , computer science , programming language
Five clinical cases of wound botulism have been reported to the Public Health Laboratory Service (PHLS) Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre and the Scottish Centre for Infection and Environmental Health since the beginning of February 2002 (1,2).