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 | | Symptoms: Short limbs (particularly proximal), low nasal bridge, large head and prominent forehead, small foramen magnum, kyphosus, hydrocephalu, severe otitus media; Heterozygotes have normal longevity, head and body are too large for the markedly shortened extremities, mental, sexual and reproductive development normal. |
 | | Shock, DIC, acidosis and death within 12-24 hours may occur with extensive DIC and purpura fulminans. |
 | | Antibiotics are not part of treatment of an uncomplicated course because the toxin is primarily an intracellular molecule that is released into the intestinal lumen with vegetative bacterial cell death and lysis. |
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