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A major theme of this conference is that botulinum toxin, nature’s most poisonous poison,1 has now been “tamed” and has acquired the distinction of becoming, through the work of Scott2 and Schantz,3 the first bacterial toxin to serve as a medicine for the betterment of humanity. So in this historic and felicitous context, it appears to be my unwelcome responsibility to remind this conference that botulinum toxin remains very much an adversary for certain select groups of patients, most notably, infants.4
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Arnon, S.S. (1993). Clinical Trial of Human Botulism Immune Globulin. In: DasGupta, B.R. (eds) Botulinum and Tetanus Neurotoxins. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9542-4_53
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