Clinical recovery and circulating botulinum toxin type F in adult patient

Jeremy Sobel; Tracy Dill; Christina L Kirkpatrick; Laurel Riek; Patrick Luedtke; Todd A Damrow

doi:10.3201/eid1506.070571

Clinical recovery and circulating botulinum toxin type F in adult patient

Emerg Infect Dis. 2009 Jun;15(6):969-71. doi: 10.3201/eid1506.070571.

Authors

Jeremy Sobel¹, Tracy Dill, Christina L Kirkpatrick, Laurel Riek, Patrick Luedtke, Todd A Damrow

Affiliation

¹ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA. [email protected]

Abstract

A 56-year-old woman in Helena, Montana, USA, who showed clinical signs of paralysis, received antitoxins to botulinum toxins A, B, and E within 24 hours; nevertheless, symptoms progressed to complete quadriplegia. On day 8, she began moving spontaneously, even though blood tests later showed botulinum toxin type F remained.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Animals
Botulinum Antitoxin / administration & dosage
Botulinum Antitoxin / therapeutic use*
Botulinum Toxins / blood*
Botulinum Toxins / poisoning*
Botulism / drug therapy*
Botulism / pathology
Clostridium / classification
Clostridium / isolation & purification
Emergency Treatment
Feces / microbiology
Female
Humans
Mice
Middle Aged
Respiration, Artificial
Treatment Outcome

Substances

Botulinum Antitoxin
Botulinum Toxins
botulinum toxin type F