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Gloriosa superba poisoning mimicking an acute infection- a case report

BACKGROUND: Gloriosa superba (GSb) is a highly poisonous plant and its toxicity is due to anti-mitotic effects of constituents such as colchicine and gloriosine on rapidly proliferating cells. Poisoning is known to cause very rapid and severe clinical manifestations due gastro intestinal, neurologic...

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Autores principales: Premaratna, Ranjan, Weerasinghe, Mindu S., Premawardana, Nuwan. P., de Silva, H Janaka
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4587877/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26415509
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40360-015-0029-6