Eurosurveillance - Volume 4, Issue 1, 01 January 1999

In August, Eurosurveillance published reports of two outbreaks of trichinellosis detected in 1998 in France and Italy and linked with horse meat imported from Yugoslavia. This issue, otherwise dedicated to botulism, includes a report of a third one. Repor

Botulinum toxin was first described as a potent neurotoxin in the late eighteenth century. Currently three main distinct clinical and epidemiological botulism syndromes are described - foodborne botulism, which results from the ingestion of food contamina

Botulism is a rare, severe, neuroparalytic disease. Four forms of botulism are described in humans: foodborne botulism and the more recently described wound botulism, infant botulism, and ‘infant-like’ botulism. The two last forms are sometimes grouped un

Clostridium botulinum is a spore forming bacterium that grows in the absence of oxygen and is responsible for three main epidemiological categories of disease: foodborne, infant, and wound botulism. Foodborne botulism is an intoxication caused by ingestio

Botulism is a severe neuroparalytic disease caused by toxin produced by Clostridium botulinum, an anaerobic spore-forming bacillus. Physicians in Norway are required to notify the National Institute of Public Health (NIPH) of cases of botulism immediately

Le 6 octobre 1998 onze cas de trichinellose survenus, en France, dans les départements de la Haute Garonne et du Tarn ont été déclarés aux autorités sanitaires de la région Midi-Pyrénées. Les toutes premières informations fournies par les médecins suggéra