肉毒中毒是由霉毒梭状芽胞杆菌(简称肉毒梭菌 Clostridium Botulinum)外毒素引起的一种急性神经肌肉功能障碍性疾病,有三种类型。一、食物中毒型,由食用含有肉毒毒素的食物引起;二、创伤感染型,由肉毒梭菌感染伤口后发生;三、婴儿肉毒中毒,自1976年美国首次报告此型病例以来,随后英国、加拿大和澳大利亚都陆续有病例报道,而以美国最多已达数百例。现将有关此型资料介绍于后。流行病学特点在已报道的数百名婴儿肉毒中毒病例中,所有患儿均为该家庭中唯一的患者,无一例是进食含有肉毒毒素的食物所引起的(这与食物中毒型肉毒中毒完全不同)。在本病 Botulism is an acute neuromuscular dysfunction caused by the exotoxin of Clostridium botulinum (Clostridium botulinum) and has three types. First, food poisoning caused by the consumption of food containing botulinum toxin; Second, traumatic infection type, Clostridium botulinum infection occurs after the wound; Third, infant botulism, since the United States first reported this type of case in 1976, Followed by the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia have reported cases, while the United States has reached up to hundreds of cases. Now on this type of information introduced later. Epidemiological Characteristics Of the hundreds reported cases of botulism in infants, all children were the only patients in the family and none were caused by the consumption of botulinum toxin-containing foods (this was associated with food-poisoned meat Poisoning completely different). In this disease