Outbreaks of iatrogenic botulism in Europe: Combating off-label medical use of Botulinum Neurotoxin (BoNT) in bariatric procedures

New Microbes New Infect. 2023 May 22:53:101152. doi: 10.1016/j.nmni.2023.101152. eCollection 2023 Jun.

¹ Faculty of Medicine, Riga Stradinš University, 16 Dzirciema Street, Riga, LV-1007, Latvia.
² Lille University School of Medicine, 2 Avenue Eugène Avinée, 59120, Loos, Lille, France.
³ Faculty of Medicine, Bahcesehir University, Istanbul, 34349, Turkey.
⁴ Department of Cardiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Helios Clinic Erfurt, Erfurt, 99089, Germany.
⁵ Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, 1090, Austria.
⁶ University of Zürich, Institute for Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention, WHO Collaborating Centre for Travellers' Health, Department of Global and Public Health, MilMedBiol Competence Centre, Zürich, Switzerland.

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Keywords: Botulism; Europe; Iatrogenic; Neurotoxin; Weight loss.

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