Poisoning after ingestion of pufferfish in Brazil: report of 11 cases

In this brief communication the authors report eleven cases of human poisoning caused by ingestion of pufferfish meat. Three patients (two children and one adult) were seriously affected. The circumstances that precipitated the poisoning are discussed as well as the clinical aspects observed. No dea...

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Autores principales: de Souza Simões, Eneida Márcia, Mendes, Thelma Marly Abreu, Adão, Angelino, Haddad Junior, Vidal
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Letter to the Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4274698/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25538766
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1678-9199-20-54
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description In this brief communication the authors report eleven cases of human poisoning caused by ingestion of pufferfish meat. Three patients (two children and one adult) were seriously affected. The circumstances that precipitated the poisoning are discussed as well as the clinical aspects observed. No deaths were registered and the patients did not present sequelae after the episode.
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spelling pubmed-42746982014-12-24 Poisoning after ingestion of pufferfish in Brazil: report of 11 cases de Souza Simões, Eneida Márcia Mendes, Thelma Marly Abreu Adão, Angelino Haddad Junior, Vidal J Venom Anim Toxins Incl Trop Dis Letter to the Editor In this brief communication the authors report eleven cases of human poisoning caused by ingestion of pufferfish meat. Three patients (two children and one adult) were seriously affected. The circumstances that precipitated the poisoning are discussed as well as the clinical aspects observed. No deaths were registered and the patients did not present sequelae after the episode. BioMed Central 2014-12-09 /pmc/articles/PMC4274698/ /pubmed/25538766 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1678-9199-20-54 Text en © Simões et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2014 This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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title_full Poisoning after ingestion of pufferfish in Brazil: report of 11 cases
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title_short Poisoning after ingestion of pufferfish in Brazil: report of 11 cases
title_sort poisoning after ingestion of pufferfish in brazil: report of 11 cases
topic Letter to the Editor
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4274698/
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