Trichothecenes in the environment: Relevance to human health

Toxicology Letters

Volumn 143, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 97-107

  Sudakin, Daniel L ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Fusarium; Mycotoxin; Risk assessment; Stachybotrys; Toxicology; Trichothecene

Indexed keywords

MYCOTOXIN; T 2 TOXIN; TRICHOTHECENE DERIVATIVE; VOMITOXIN;

AGRICULTURE; BLEEDING; CHEMISTRY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DETOXIFICATION; DIET; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; EPIDEMIC; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD INTAKE; FUNGAL DETECTION; FUSARIUM; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GENETIC TOXICOLOGY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEALTH; HUMAN IMPACT (ENVIRONMENT); IMMUNOMODULATION; INFECTIOUS COMPLICATION; LEUKOPENIA; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGY; SHORT SURVEY; SPECIES ENDEMICITY; STACHYBOTRYS; TOXICOKINETICS;

ANIMALIA; FUNGI; FUSARIUM; MYROTHECIUM; STACHYBOTRYS;

EID: 0038394347     PISSN: 03784274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4274(03)00116-4     Document Type: Short Survey

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