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ReviewToxins2020

Adult Intestinal Toxemia Botulism.

Richard A Harris, Fabrizio Anniballi, John W Austin

Open access · goldAbstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in Toxins, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
29citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.9field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

29 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 57 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Botulism in the 21st Century: A Scoping Review.The Brown journal of hospital medicine · 2023
    Pooled it
  2. Article
  3. Investigating the dual nature ofLe infezioni in medicina · 2026
    Review
  4. Article
  5. Application ofFoods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
    Review
  6. Article
  7. Article
  8. Chronic Botulism in Humans: A Case Series.Clinical case reports · 2025
    Article
  9. Article
  10. Conflicting Clinical Presentation of Infection withJournal of pediatrics. Clinical practice · 2025
    Article
  11. Article
  12. Review
  13. First case of infant botulism in Sicily-case report.Italian journal of pediatrics · 2024
    Article
  14. Article
  15. Article
  16. Article
  17. Review
  18. Foodborne Botulism, Canada, 2006-2021Emerging infectious diseases · 2023
    Review
  19. Article
  20. Membrane Vesicles Derived FromFrontiers in microbiology · 2022
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Richard A HarrisBotulism Reference Service for Canada, Microbiology Research Division, Bureau of Microbial Hazards, Food Directorate, Health Products and Food Branch, Ottawa, ON K1A 0K9, Canada.
Fabrizio AnniballiNational Reference Centre for Botulism, Microbiological Foodborne Hazard Unit, Department of Food Safety, Nutrition and Veterinary Public Health, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, viale Regina Elena, 29900161 Rome, Italy.
John W AustinBotulism Reference Service for Canada, Microbiology Research Division, Bureau of Microbial Hazards, Food Directorate, Health Products and Food Branch, Ottawa, ON K1A 0K9, Canada.
Health Canada · CAIstituto Superiore di Sanità · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Intoxication with botulinum neurotoxin can occur through various routes. Foodborne botulism results after consumption of food in which botulinum neurotoxin-producing clostridia (i.e.,

Indexed as

BotulismIntestinal DiseasesToxemiaAdultClostridium botulinumGastrointestinal MicrobiomeHumansbotulinum toxinbotulismClostridium baratiiClostridium botulinumClostridium butyricumintestinal toxemia

Identifiers

PMID31991691
PMCPMC7076759
OpenAlexW3003334024

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Registered trials

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