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Infantile botulism presents with respiratory difficulty and hypotonia in only the second reported UK case.
Highlights a rare case of infantile botulism in the UK to raise awareness and prevent misdiagnosis.
Alerts UK clinicians to rare infantile botulism; case report leaves open need for enhanced surveillance.
A 4 month old boy presented with respiratory difficulty and hypotonia. Clostridium botulinum and its toxin were isolated from his faeces and he had electromyographic changes typical of infantile botulism. This is only the second case in the United Kingdom: unfamiliarity with the presentation could result in misdiagnosis.
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Smith et al. (1989) studied this question. Infantile botulism presented with respiratory difficulty and hypotonia in a 4-month-old boy, marking only the second reported case in the United Kingdom.
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