Tilapia Consumption and Scombroid Poisoning

Scombroid poisoning, also known as histamine fish poisoning, typically occurs after eating dark meat fish. Higher levels of histidine, which is converted to histamine, causes anaphylaxis-like symptoms upon ingestion. There are few reported cases of scombroid in humans secondary to light meat fish. W...

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Autores principales: Edigin, Ehizogie, Lingamaneni, Prasanth, Sarmiento, Juan, Shaka, Hafeez, Patel, Sanjay A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2019
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Allergy/Immunology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6874284/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31803558
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.5976
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author Edigin, Ehizogie
Lingamaneni, Prasanth
Sarmiento, Juan
Shaka, Hafeez
Patel, Sanjay A
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Lingamaneni, Prasanth
Sarmiento, Juan
Shaka, Hafeez
Patel, Sanjay A
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description Scombroid poisoning, also known as histamine fish poisoning, typically occurs after eating dark meat fish. Higher levels of histidine, which is converted to histamine, causes anaphylaxis-like symptoms upon ingestion. There are few reported cases of scombroid in humans secondary to light meat fish. We present a case secondary to tilapia consumption.
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spelling pubmed-68742842019-12-04 Tilapia Consumption and Scombroid Poisoning Edigin, Ehizogie Lingamaneni, Prasanth Sarmiento, Juan Shaka, Hafeez Patel, Sanjay A Cureus Allergy/Immunology Scombroid poisoning, also known as histamine fish poisoning, typically occurs after eating dark meat fish. Higher levels of histidine, which is converted to histamine, causes anaphylaxis-like symptoms upon ingestion. There are few reported cases of scombroid in humans secondary to light meat fish. We present a case secondary to tilapia consumption. Cureus 2019-10-23 /pmc/articles/PMC6874284/ /pubmed/31803558 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.5976 Text en Copyright © 2019, Edigin et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Edigin, Ehizogie
Lingamaneni, Prasanth
Sarmiento, Juan
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Patel, Sanjay A
Tilapia Consumption and Scombroid Poisoning
title Tilapia Consumption and Scombroid Poisoning
title_full Tilapia Consumption and Scombroid Poisoning
title_fullStr Tilapia Consumption and Scombroid Poisoning
title_full_unstemmed Tilapia Consumption and Scombroid Poisoning
title_short Tilapia Consumption and Scombroid Poisoning
title_sort tilapia consumption and scombroid poisoning
topic Allergy/Immunology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6874284/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31803558
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.5976
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