Guidance

Botulism: clinical and public health management

Information for healthcare professionals on the diagnosis and treatment of infant botulism, foodborne botulism and wound botulism.

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This guidance includes information on:

  • clinical features
  • clinical management
  • laboratory diagnosis
  • risk factors

Updates to this page

Published 19 July 2012
Last updated 17 July 2025 show all updates
  1. Addition of Iatrogenic botulism guidance.

  2. Rebranded page to UKHSA. No change to content.

  3. Updated information on wound botulism cases associated with injecting drug use in section 3 and 3.4.

  4. First published.

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