Liver failure and death after exposure to microcystins at a hemodialysis center in Brazil

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 338, Issue 13, 1998, Pages 873-878

  Jochimsen, Elise M ^a   Carmichael, Wayne W ^b   An, Jisi ^b   Cardo, Denise M ^a   Cookson, Susan T ^a   Holmes, Christianne E M ^c   De Antunes, M Bernadete C ^c   De Melo Filho, Djalma A ^c   Lyra, Tereza M ^c   Barreto, Victorino Spinelli T ^d   Azevedo, Sandra M F O ^e   Jarvis, William R ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Secretaria Estadual de Saude de Pernambuco   (Brazil)

^d HOSPITAL BARÃO DE LUCENA   (Brazil)

^e FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYANOGINOSIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CYANOBACTERIUM; FEMALE; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NAUSEA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VOMITING; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SUPPLY;

ADULT; BACTERIAL TOXINS; COHORT STUDIES; CYANOBACTERIA; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER FAILURE, ACUTE; MICROCYSTINS; MIDDLE AGED; PEPTIDES, CYCLIC; RENAL DIALYSIS; VISION DISORDERS; VOMITING; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 18144451569     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199803263381304     Document Type: Article

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