From Rarity to Recognition: Infantile Botulism and the Broad Spectrum of Differential Diagnoses
This case illustrates a 5-week-old girl who presented with decreased activity, decreased feeds, poor suck, weak cry, lethargy, hypotonia, and areflexia. The child was found to have infant botulism. The case demonstrates the importance of a full history and broad differential in an ill-appearing infa...
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| description | This case illustrates a 5-week-old girl who presented with decreased activity, decreased feeds, poor suck, weak cry, lethargy, hypotonia, and areflexia. The child was found to have infant botulism. The case demonstrates the importance of a full history and broad differential in an ill-appearing infant. The differential for an ill-appearing infant should always include infectious etiologies and may include metabolic disorders, congenital anomalies, nonaccidental trauma, neurologic disorders, and endocrine disorders. The broad differential diagnosis may make rapid diagnosis and treatment for infantile botulism a challenge. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-33127825d3aa4066a8e814136226b7742025-02-03T01:31:53ZengWileyCase Reports in Pediatrics2090-68112024-01-01202410.1155/2024/4647591From Rarity to Recognition: Infantile Botulism and the Broad Spectrum of Differential DiagnosesMatthew C. Authement0Brandon M. Jones1Robert J. Kahoud2Elizabeth H. Ristagno3Pediatric Hospital MedicineDivision of Child and Adolescent NeurologyDivision of Pediatric Critical Care MedicineDivision of Pediatric Infectious DiseaseThis case illustrates a 5-week-old girl who presented with decreased activity, decreased feeds, poor suck, weak cry, lethargy, hypotonia, and areflexia. The child was found to have infant botulism. The case demonstrates the importance of a full history and broad differential in an ill-appearing infant. The differential for an ill-appearing infant should always include infectious etiologies and may include metabolic disorders, congenital anomalies, nonaccidental trauma, neurologic disorders, and endocrine disorders. The broad differential diagnosis may make rapid diagnosis and treatment for infantile botulism a challenge.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2024/4647591 |
| spellingShingle | Matthew C. Authement Brandon M. Jones Robert J. Kahoud Elizabeth H. Ristagno From Rarity to Recognition: Infantile Botulism and the Broad Spectrum of Differential Diagnoses Case Reports in Pediatrics |
| title | From Rarity to Recognition: Infantile Botulism and the Broad Spectrum of Differential Diagnoses |
| title_full | From Rarity to Recognition: Infantile Botulism and the Broad Spectrum of Differential Diagnoses |
| title_fullStr | From Rarity to Recognition: Infantile Botulism and the Broad Spectrum of Differential Diagnoses |
| title_full_unstemmed | From Rarity to Recognition: Infantile Botulism and the Broad Spectrum of Differential Diagnoses |
| title_short | From Rarity to Recognition: Infantile Botulism and the Broad Spectrum of Differential Diagnoses |
| title_sort | from rarity to recognition infantile botulism and the broad spectrum of differential diagnoses |
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