Something fishy: Six patients with an unusual cause of food poisoning!

Emergency Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 293-295

  Hall, Michael ^a  

^a CANBERRA HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Histamine fish poisoning; Hypotension; Scombroid; Scombrotoxin

Indexed keywords

HISTIDINE; SCOMBROTOXIN; TOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABDOMINAL CRAMP; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DECOMPOSITION; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; FISH; FLUSHING; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD POISONING; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URTICARIA; VOMITING;

ADULT; ANIMALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MARINE TOXINS; MIDDLE AGED; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESTAURANTS; SEAFOOD; TUNA;

EID: 0037592759     PISSN: 10356851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1442-2026.2003.00448.x     Document Type: Article

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