Wound Botulism Caused by Clostridium subterminale after a Heroin Injection | Zendy

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Wound Botulism Caused by Clostridium subterminale after a Heroin Injection

Author(s) -

Paris A. Cook,

Aimee Mishler,

Dan Quan,

Ashley Parrish-Garcia

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

infectious disease reports

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.487

H-Index - 17

ISSN - 2036-7449

DOI - 10.4081/idr.2018.7654

Subject(s) - botulism , medicine , antitoxin , clostridium botulinum , clostridium , botulinum toxin , heroin , clostridium butyricum , anesthesia , microbiology and biotechnology , surgery , toxin , drug , bacteria , pharmacology , biology , genetics

Botulism is caused by toxin production from many species of , most commonly as well as and . Development of wound botulism is associated with injection drug users but has also been described in traumatic injuries with exposure to soil. A patient presented to the emergency department with a complaint of descending, progressive weakness. He recently reported skin popping with heroin injections. Heptavalent botulinum antitoxin was obtained from the [Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)]. On hospital day seven, the anaerobic wound cultures resulted with growth of .

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