Outbreak of bronchiolitis obliterans associated with consumption of sauropus androgynus in Japan - Alert of food-associated pulmonary disorders from Japan

Respiration

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 221-

  Oonakahara, Kenichi ^a   Matsuyama, Wataru ^a   Higashimoto, Ikkou ^a   Machida, Kentarou ^a   Kawabata, Masaharu ^a   Arimura, Kimiyoshi ^a   Osame, Mitsuhiro ^a   Hayashi, Miho ^b   Ogura, Takashi ^b   Imaizumi, Kazuyoshi ^c   Hasegawa, Yoshinori ^c  

^a KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Kanagawa Prefectural Cardiovascular and Respiratory Center Hospital   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRONCHODILATING AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID;

ADULT; AGED; BRONCHIOLITIS OBLITERANS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPIDEMIC; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FEMALE; FOOD ALLERGY; FOOD INTAKE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; LETTER; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MALAYSIA; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAUROPUS ANDROGYNUS; TAIWAN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BRONCHIOLITIS OBLITERANS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EUPHORBIACEAE; FOOD POISONING; HUMANS; JAPAN;

EID: 20944438847     PISSN: 00257931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000084058     Document Type: Letter

References (3)

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