intestinal botulism
Findings
No curated finding names intestinal botulism yet. Everything below is reference data from Mondo, HPO and GenCC, not evidence about what affects it.
Definition
A rare form of botulism, a rare acquired neuromuscular junction disease with descending flaccid paralysis caused by botulinum neurotoxins (BoNTs), and is due to intestinal colonization by Clostridium botulinum leading to toxin-mediated infection with toxemia. The disease affects infants (infant botulism) and very rarely adults (adult intestinal botulism).
Definition from the Mondo Disease Ontology (MONDO:0015805), read 2026-09-29. CC BY 4.0.
- Onset and course
- Death in infancy
HPO, annotations 2026-09-02
Features
12 features
What the disease is reported to present with, and how often among people who have it — never how often a feature means the disease. HPO, annotations 2026-09-02.
- Cranial nerve paralysisHPOHP:0006824
- Very frequent (80% to 99% of cases)
- DiplopiaHPOHP:0000651
- Very frequent (80% to 99% of cases)
- DysarthriaHPOHP:0001260
- Very frequent (80% to 99% of cases)
- DysphagiaHPOHP:0002015
- Very frequent (80% to 99% of cases)
- HypotoniaHPOHP:0001252
- Very frequent (80% to 99% of cases)
- MydriasisHPOHP:0011499
- Very frequent (80% to 99% of cases)
- Ptosis
Where it sits
- A kind of
- Narrower terms (2)
Other names
5 names
Resolves to: intestinal botulism
- Also called
- intestinal colonisation botulismintestinal colonization botulismintestinal toxaemia botulismintestinal toxemia botulismintestinal toxin-mediated botulism