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ArticleJournal of investigative medicine high impact case reports

Wound Botulism in Black Tar Heroin Injecting Users: A Case Series.

Nadia Raza, Sandhya Dhital, Valerie Elise Espinoza, Roopam Jariwal, Chien-Wai Chiu, Michael Valdez, Arash Heidari, Greti Petersen, Katayoun Sabetian

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Article in Journal of investigative medicine high impact case reports. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 44% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Nadia RazaUCLA at Kern Medical Center, Bakersfield, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9518-859X
Sandhya DhitalUCLA at Kern Medical Center, Bakersfield, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7958-5122
Valerie Elise EspinozaUCLA at Kern Medical Center, Bakersfield, CA, USA.
Roopam JariwalUCLA at Kern Medical Center, Bakersfield, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2506-476X
Chien-Wai ChiuUCLA at Kern Medical Center, Bakersfield, CA, USA.
Michael ValdezUCLA at Kern Medical Center, Bakersfield, CA, USA.
Arash HeidariUCLA at Kern Medical Center, Bakersfield, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1091-348X
Greti PetersenUCLA at Kern Medical Center, Bakersfield, CA, USA.
Katayoun SabetianUCLA at Kern Medical Center, Bakersfield, CA, USA.
Kern Medical Center · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The incidence of wound botulism in injection drug users has increased since the introduction of black tar heroin. Many species of the

Indexed as

BotulismDeglutition DisordersWound InfectionClostridiumHeroinHumansHeroinbotulism heptavalent antitoxinClostridium botulinuminjection drug userswound botulism

Identifiers

PMID34259080
PMCPMC8283217
OpenAlexW3182625738

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