Wound Botulism Associated With Black Tar Heroin Among Injecting Drug Users
Douglas J. Passaro;S. Benson Werner;Jim McGee;William R. Mac Kenzie;Duc J. Vugia;
JAMA1998Vol. 279pp. 859-863
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Abstract
Context.—Wound botulism (WB) is a potentially lethal, descending, flaccid, paralysis
that results when spores of Clostridium botulinum
germinate in a wound an