Diagnostic pitfall: Wound botulism in an intoxicated intravenous drug abuser presenting with respiratory failure

Georg Royl; Juri Katchanov; Frank Stachulski; Jörg Schultze; Christoph J. Ploner; Matthias Endres

doi:10.1007/s00134-007-0620-4

Diagnostic pitfall: Wound botulism in an intoxicated intravenous drug abuser presenting with respiratory failure

Georg Royl, Juri Katchanov, Frank Stachulski, Jörg Schultze, Christoph J. Ploner, Matthias Endres^*

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Clinic of Neurology

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Abstract

Sir: Wound botulism has gained importance because of rising occurrence among injecting drug users (IDUs) in the United Kingdom and United States over the past 20 years [1, 2, 3] and recently also in Germany [4]. The causative organism is Clostridium botulinum, an anaerobic, gram-positive, spore-forming bacterium. We report a case of wound botulism initially misdiagnosed as drug intoxication.

Original language	English
Journal	Intensive Care Medicine
Volume	33
Issue number	7
Number of pages	1
ISSN	0342-4642
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-007-0620-4
Publication status	Published - 01.07.2007

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