An outbreak of allergy-like food poisoning

Internal Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 833-835

  Ohnuma, Shizuka ^a   Higa, Mariko ^a   Hamanaka, Shinsuke ^a   Matsushima, Kazu ^a   Yamamuro, Wataru ^a  

^a Saiseikai Kanagawa ken Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Histamine; Tuna

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CATERING SERVICE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FOOD ALLERGY; FOOD POISONING; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; JAPAN; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; TUNA;

ADULT; ANIMALS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; FOOD HYPERSENSITIVITY; FOOD POISONING; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RESTAURANTS; TUNA;

EID: 0035431129     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.40.833     Document Type: Article

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