Clinical experience in poisonings following exposure to blasticidin S, a curiously strong fungicide

Veterinary and Human Toxicology

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 107-112

  Yang, Chen Chang ^a   Deng, Jou Fang ^b  

^a TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON; ALCOHOL; ARSENIC; ATROPINE; BLASTICIDIN S; ELECTROLYTE; FUNGICIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DRUG INTOXICATION; FEMALE; FLUID THERAPY; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; MALE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; STOMACH LAVAGE;

AGED; ANTIBIOTICS, ANTIFUNGAL; ARRHYTHMIA; CYANOSIS; DIARRHEA; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HIGH-FREQUENCY VENTILATION; HUMANS; HYPOTENSION; INHALATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEOSIDES; PHARYNGITIS; POISONING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED; VOMITING;

EID: 0029917660     PISSN: 01456296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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