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  • Title: Continuous microbiological and pathological study of 70 sudden and unexpected infant deaths: toxigenic intestinal clostridium botulinum infection in 9 cases of sudden infant death syndrome.
    Author: Sonnabend OA, Sonnabend WF, Krech U, Molz G, Sigrist T.
    Journal: Lancet; 1985 Feb 02; 1(8423):237-41. PubMed ID: 2857317.
    Abstract:
    As part of a programme to exclude infection as the cause of death in infants who died suddenly and unexpectedly necropsies were carried out on 70 such infants. In 11 cases (15%), a pathological diagnosis could be made at necropsy; in 9 of these, causative bacteria or viruses were found. The 59 cases in which the cause of death could not be found had histological features characteristic of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). Botulinum toxin was found in 9 SIDS cases (15%). 8 of these infants had botulinum toxin and organisms of different types (A, B, C, F, G) in the contents of the ileojejunum or colon. 4 of them also had toxin in the serum. No botulinum toxin or organisms were found in the 11 infants who died of identified causes or 18 other infants who died in hospital of known causes.
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