Multilocus outbreak of foodborne botulism linked to contaminated sausage in Hebei province, China.

Zhang, Shouyin; Wang, Yong; Qiu, Shaofu; Dong, Yonghui; Xu, Yuanyong; Jiang, Deyong; Fu, Xiuping; Zhang, Jingshan et al. · Clin Infect Dis · 2010

case_series · Level IV

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Abstract

In 2007, an outbreak of foodborne botulism occurred in Hebei province, China. An epidemiological investigation and laboratory detection studies showed that sausage contaminated by type A Clostridium botulinum caused this outbreak of food poisoning. Its clinical and epidemiological features were different from previous reports of food poisoning.

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