Illness associated with eating seaweed, Hawaii, 1994

Western Journal of Medicine

Volumn 169, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 293-295

  Marshall, Katherine L E ^a   Vogt, Richard L ^b   Effler, Paul ^c  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b Department of Health ^*  (United States)

^c Department of Health   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APLYSIATOXIN; DEBROMOAPLYSIATOXIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLUE GREEN ALGA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD POISONING; HUMAN; MALE; SEAWEED; UNITED STATES; WATER SAMPLING;

ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; HAWAII; HUMANS; LYNGBYA TOXINS; MALE; NAUSEA; PLANT POISONING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEAWEED; VOMITING;

EID: 0031774643     PISSN: 00930415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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