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Case Reports
. 2009 Jun;15(6):969-71.
doi: 10.3201/eid1506.070571.

Clinical recovery and circulating botulinum toxin type F in adult patient

Jeremy Sobel  1 , Tracy Dill, Christina L Kirkpatrick, Laurel Riek, Patrick Luedtke, Todd A Damrow
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Case Reports

Clinical recovery and circulating botulinum toxin type F in adult patient

Jeremy Sobel et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2009 Jun.

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.

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