Institute for Medical Microbiology and Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases, University Hospital of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
Anaerobe. 2012 Apr;18(2):226-8. doi: 10.1016/j.anaerobe.2011.12.011. Epub 2011 Dec 22.
Although botulism is usually an acute, often lethal disease that is caused by the ingestion of botulinum neurotoxin, there are also recognized forms like infant botulism, wound botulism, or "botulism of undefined origin" that are characterized by the fact that Clostridium botulinum colonizes the host and produces its toxin in the host. Evidence is presented here that a disease in cattle and in human care takers of diseased animals that has evolved over the past two decades, may be a chronic, visceral form of C. botulinum infection.
虽然肉毒中毒通常是一种由摄入肉毒神经毒素引起的急性、常致命的疾病，但也有公认的形式，如婴儿肉毒中毒、创伤性肉毒中毒或“不明来源的肉毒中毒”，其特征是肉毒梭菌在宿主中定植并在宿主中产生其毒素。本文提出证据表明，过去二十年来在牛和患病动物的饲养者中出现的一种疾病，可能是一种慢性内脏肉毒梭菌感染形式。
