{"title":"Infantile Botulism: One of the Multiple Etiologies of Acute Hypotonia in Infancy","authors":"R. Arjmand, Parastoo Sharifian","doi":"10.34172/IJEP.2020.15","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Infant botulism is an uncommon disease with a challenging diagnosis which is often confused with other diseases. This is a report of a case of infant botulism with no history of honey ingestion and responds well to equine immunoglobulin due to the low prevalence and importance of the mentioned disease.","PeriodicalId":31016,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Enteric Pathogens","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2020-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"International Journal of Enteric Pathogens","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.34172/IJEP.2020.15","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Infant botulism is an uncommon disease with a challenging diagnosis which is often confused with other diseases. This is a report of a case of infant botulism with no history of honey ingestion and responds well to equine immunoglobulin due to the low prevalence and importance of the mentioned disease.