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Botulism in the European Union
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Botulism in the European Union
Euro Surveill.
1999 Jan.
Abstract
Botulinum toxin was first described as a potent neurotoxin in the late eighteenth century. Currently three main distinct clinical and epidemiological botulism syndromes are described - foodborne botulism, which results from the ingestion of food contamina
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