Serious mushroom poisonings in California requiring hospital admission, 1990 through 1994

Western Journal of Medicine

Volumn 165, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 283-288

  Jacobs, Jeffrey ^a   Von Behren, Julievon ^a   Kreutzer, Richard ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMANITIN;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MUSHROOM POISONING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REVIEW; SCHOOL CHILD; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CALIFORNIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MUSHROOM POISONING;

EID: 0030463713     PISSN: 00930415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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