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  Botulism Resource Guide

Major Sites

• Botulism - Johns Hopkins Center for Public Health Preparedness
  CDC: Botulism
  Extensive information from the federal government's major online resource on anthrax from the Centers for Disease Control.
• Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy: Botulism
  Images, guidelines, and clinical pathway flowchart from the University of Minnesota research program.
• IDSA: Botulism Resource List
  Clinical and epidemiology information from the Infectious Diseases Society of America.
• MedlinePlus: Botulism
  Information resources for the general public plus links to literature searches in MEDLINE.

State and Local Information

• Virginia Department of Health: Botulism
  Fact Sheet.
• Virginia Dept. of Emergency Management, Virginia Terrorism Preparedness
  Botulism questions and answers

Antitoxin Information

Release of Botulism Antitoxin:CDC
MMWR1986 August;35(30);490-1

Books, Journals and Audiovisual Materials

To search for books, journals, and audiovisual materials held by the VCU Libraries, use the VCU Library Catalog (DCAT).  DCAT allows you to search by title, author, keyword and subject.  To determine the appropriate subject heading for a topic, consult the lists of Medical Subject Headings or Library of Congress Subject Headings in the libraries.  Possible medical subject headings for books and a.v. include botulism, botulinum toxin and clostridium botulinum.

Full-text Book Chapters and Selected Journal Articles

• Botulinum Toxin as a Biological Weapon: Medical and Public Health Management
  JAMA 2001 May;285(8): 1059-1070.
• Botulinum Toxins - Chapter 33
  In: Zatjchuk R, ed. Textbook of Military Medicine. Washington, DC: Office of the Surgeon General, Walter Reed Medical Center;1997:643-654. (PDF)
• Botulism: Merck Manual
  Etiology, symptoms, diagnosis, special precautions, and prophylaxis.
  For recent journal literature from the Medline database, using the MEDLINEplus preformatted search

Other Useful Sites

Botulism Images

• Public Health Image Library - Micrographs and clinical photographs from the CDC site.
• Botulinum Toxin as a Biological Weapon - Figures and tables from JAMA 2001 May;285(8): 1059-1070.

PDA Resources

• ACP-AIM Resources - Decision support tools and documents from the American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine. See link to Biotoxins.

Laboratory Guidelines

• Sentinel Laboratory Guidelines for Suspected Agents of Bioterrorism - Botulinum Toxin - - American Society for Microbiology (PDF)