Human fatality due to ingestion of the crab Demania reynaudii that contained a palytoxin-like toxin

Toxicon

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 1988, Pages 105-107

  Alcala, Angel C ^a   Alcala, Lawton C ^a   Garth, John S ^b   Yasumura, Daisuke ^c   Yasumoto, Takeshi ^c  

^a SILLIMAN UNIVERSITY   (Philippines)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PALYTOXIN;

ADULT; ARTHROPOD; CASE REPORT; CHROMATOGRAPHY; CRAB; FATALITY; FOOD POISONING; HUMAN; PRELIMINARY COMMUNICATION;

ANIMAL; BRACHYURA; CASE REPORT; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CNIDARIAN VENOMS; FOOD POISONING; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MALE; MARINE TOXINS; MIDDLE AGE;

EID: 0023870328     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0041-0101(88)90142-0     Document Type: Article

References (8)

1. Recent cases of crab, cone shell, and fish intoxication on southern Negros Island, Philippines
2. Human fatality due to ingestion of the crab Demania toxica in the Philippines
3. Some toxic marine crabs in southern Negros Island, Philippines
4. Poisonous crabs of Indo-west Pacific coral reefs, with special reference to the genus Demania Laurie
5. Fatalities from crab poisoning on Negros Island, Philippines
6. Partial purification of Lophozozymus pictor toxin
7. Tetrodotoxin and paralytic shellfish toxins in Philippine crabs
8. Palytoxin in two species of xanthid crab from the Philippines