Wound Botulism in California, 1951–1998: Recent Epidemic in Heroin Injectors
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- 1 October 2000
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Clinical Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 31 (4) , 1018-1024
- https://doi.org/10.1086/318134
Abstract
California has reported most of the world's wound botulism (WB) cases and nearly three-fourths of the cases reported in the United States. We revieweKeywords
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