ORPHA:178475
Wound botulism
Also known as: Cutaneous infectious botulism · Cutaneous toxin-mediated botulism · Inoculation botulism · Skin infectious botulism · Skin toxin-mediated botulism
Publications
568
71.9th percentile
Trials
0
Interventional, condition-specific
Researchers
961
Distinct authors in sample
Gene link
—
Readiness
3/6
Stages with a signal
Clinical definition (Orphanet)
Wound botulism is a rare infectious form of botulism, a rare acquired neuromuscular junction disease with descending flaccid paralysis due to botulinum neurotoxins (BoNTs), produced after infection of wounds by Clostridium botulinum.
How rare: How common this is has not been clearly measured.
Cross-references
Joined from Mondo / Orphanet. MeSH labels may enter searches; UMLS / OMIM / NCIT are stored for reference.
- MONDO:0015803
- UMLS:C1306794
- NCIT:C128342
Additional Mondo synonyms (5)
cutaneous infectious botulism · cutaneous toxin-mediated botulism · inoculation botulism · skin infectious botulism · skin toxin-mediated botulism
Research stages
Trial readiness signals
Where this condition sits on an open-data research pipeline — not how close a treatment is, and not medical advice. Empty stages often mean “not in these databases under this Mondo ID,” not “impossible.”
3/6 stages with a signal
No specific-condition interventional trial, but broader-category trials exist — discuss eligibility with a clinician.
- Gene identifiedNot found
No GenCC disease–gene assertion in this build
- LiteraturePresent
568 matched papers (250 in last 10 years) Source
- Phenotype characterisedPresent
15 HPO annotations (e.g. Urinary retention; Ptosis; Fever) Source
- Animal modelNot found
No Alliance genotype “model of” associations via Monarch for these Mondo IDs
- Orphan designationNot found
No FDA or EMA orphan-drug designation matched this disease via UMLS or preferred name Source
- Interventional trialPartial
None under the specific name; 17 for broader category botulism
Biology
Genes and phenotypes
Gene–disease validity from GenCC, plus phenotypes and animal models joined from Monarch Initiative via Mondo ID — not a clinical diagnosis aid.
Do we know what causes it?
Not yet — the cause hasn't been pinned down in GenCC.
No strong gene–disease assertion joined for this Orphanet entity.
Phenotypes (Monarch / HPO)
15
Associated phenotypes · MONDO:0015803
- Urinary retention
- Ptosis
- Fever
- Cranial nerve paralysis
- Diplopia
Showing 5 of 15 — open Monarch for the full list.
Animal models (Monarch / Alliance)
None returned for this Mondo ID. Empty here is not proof that no model organism work exists under another name or gene.
Monarch fetch 2026-07-29
Therapies
Designations, candidates, and chemicals
FDA OOPD and EMA orphan designations, Open Targets clinical candidates, and CTD chemical associations via MyDisease.info. These never change the interventional-trial headline.
Orphan designation (FDA · EMA)
No designation matched this disease via UMLS or preferred name on the FDA OOPD mirror or EMA orphan register. Absence here is not proof that none exists under another wording.
Open Targets candidates
No drugs or clinical candidates returned for this Mondo ID on Open Targets.
CTD chemicals (MyDisease.info)
No CTD chemical associations returned for this Mondo ID.
Literature
Is anyone studying this?
568
568 papers have been published on this condition. That is a real research literature — still far smaller than common diseases (breast cancer: over 700,000 papers). Median papers in the last 10 years for a rare disease in this dataset (publications denominator n=3967) is 59.
568 papers since the earliest indexed year in this search — median last-10-year count for a rare disease in this dataset is 59 (publications denominator n=3967).
250 in the last 10 years · high confidence · 71.9th percentile (publications denominator)
Phrase hits: 568 · MeSH hits: 0
Who's working on it?
961
Distinct author names in 200 sampled papers — named people below.
Who's working on it?
No interventional trial matched this name; these authors publish on it in the sampled literature — a practical starting point for contact.
- 01Anniballi F6 papers · 2022
National Reference Centre for Botulism (NRCB), Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Viale Regina Elena 299, 00161 Roma, Italy. fabrizio.anniballi@iss.it.
Papers in Europe PMC - 02Popoff MR5 papers · 2022
Institut Pasteur, Université de Paris, Unité Toxines Bactériennes, F-75015 Paris, France.
Papers in Europe PMC - 03Austin JW4 papers · 2023
Botulism Reference Service for Canada, Health Canada, Ottawa, ON.
Papers in Europe PMC - 04Chatham-Stephens K4 papers · 2021
National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, Georgia.
Papers in Europe PMC - 05Lúquez C4 papers · 2021
1 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Enteric Diseases Laboratory Branch, National Botulism and Enteric Toxins Team, Atlanta, Georgia.
Papers in Europe PMC - 06Rasetti-Escargueil C4 papers · 2024
Institut Pasteur, Université de Paris, Unité Toxines Bactériennes, F-75015 Paris, France.
Papers in Europe PMC - 07Smith TJ4 papers · 2026
Pathogen and Microbiome Institute, Northern Arizona University.
Papers in Europe PMC - 08Xu X4 papers · 2025
State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China.
Papers in Europe PMC - 09Alam SI3 papers · 2021
Biotechnology Division, Defence Research & Development Establishment, Gwalior, 474 002, India.
Papers in Europe PMC - 10Amar C3 papers · 2020
3 Consultant in Public Health, Gastrointestinal Bacterial Reference Unit, Public Health England, UK.
Papers in Europe PMC
Clinical research
Is a treatment being tested?
0
interventional trials for this specific condition
No interventional trial testing a treatment matched this specific condition name on ClinicalTrials.gov (observational studies and pan-disease registries are listed separately when present). 17 trials are registered for botulism, the broader category — shown separately because they may or may not enrol this specific subtype.
Data as of 11 September 2026 · last trial check 11 September 2026
No matched interventional trials. This is true for 77.2% of diseases in the trials denominator (5501 of 7126). Here are the researchers publishing on it.
high confidence · 38.6th percentile (trials denominator)
Recruiting interventional trials
From the matched ClinicalTrials.gov set
No interventional trial testing a treatment was found for this specific condition name on ClinicalTrials.gov.
17 interventional trials matched botulism, the broader category — listed below. Those studies are not counted in the condition-specific total.
Broader category: botulism
17
Interventional trials for the parent category, exclusive of NCT IDs already counted above. Eligibility for this subtype is not guaranteed.
Worth raising with a clinician. How we count trials.
Recruiting under the broader category
- NCT02051062·ENROLLING BY INVITATION·BT-011 Pharmacokinetics of Botulism Antitoxin Heptavalent in Pediatric Patients
Conditions: Botulism·Matched via name phrase
Other registries (secondary)
Broader net from EU CTIS, ISRCTN, and ICTRP when available — deduped against ClinicalTrials.gov IDs already counted above. Dual-model LLM relevance gates what we keep. These rows are not added to the interventional headline.
raw 0 · after dedupe 0 · already on CT.gov 0 · kept 0 · parent 0 · uncertain 0 · dropped 0 · fetched 2026-07-30
Source notes: ictrp: Error: ICTRP public search unavailable (WHO portal is SPA-only; SOAP needs partnership). Tried: https://apps.who.int/tri
No secondary-registry studies passed dual-model relevance for this condition name (after dedupe).
Where to find support
Condition-specific patient organisations, when Orphanet lists them, are on the disease’s Orphanet page. We also link umbrella groups that support undiagnosed and ultra-rare families.
Orphanet entry for Wound botulism — check Associations / patient organisations on that page.
India — NPRD
Last verified 2026-07-26This ORPHAcode is not on our curated NPRD list (direct or Mondo-parent match). That does not decide clinical eligibility; families in India should ask a notified Centre of Excellence about current coverage.
Hand-curated for this project. ORPHAcode mappings are best-effort and may be incomplete or imprecise for umbrella categories. Parent (Mondo) matches mean the policy lists a broader category — confirm eligibility with a Centre of Excellence. Financial entitlements summarised from public policy statements and may change. This is not official government guidance.
How we counted this
Europe PMC query (preferred label + any corrected label + Orphanet and Mondo exact synonyms, stoplisted; unioned with resolved MeSH labels when available). UMLS / OMIM / NCIT cross-references are stored on the overview but are not added to the query string.
"Wound botulism" OR "Cutaneous infectious botulism" OR "Cutaneous toxin-mediated botulism" OR "Inoculation botulism" OR "Skin infectious botulism" OR "Skin toxin-mediated botulism"
ClinicalTrials.gov query (quoted phrases + MeSH via query.cond, plus recall-expansion terms when used):
"Wound botulism" OR "Cutaneous infectious botulism" OR "Cutaneous toxin-mediated botulism" OR "Inoculation botulism" OR "Skin infectious botulism" OR "Skin toxin-mediated botulism"
Study-type breakdown: 0 interventional · 0 observational · 0 expanded access. Only interventional studies enter the trial headline.
Parent-category trials query:
"botulism"
Query health: ok — strategies attempted: phrase; with hits: phrase
Run this search on ClinicalTrials.gov
Confidence reasoning
- Preferred label is multi-word and distinctive
- No synonyms dropped by stoplist
- No label/synonym collisions with other diseases in this corpus
Ingested 2026-07-27T08:52:52.393Z