What the Primary Care Pediatrician Should Know about Syndromes Associated with Exposures to Mycotoxins

Current Problems in Pediatric and Adolescent Health Care

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 282-305

  Etzel, Ruth A ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; AFLATOXIN; AFLATOXIN B1; AMOXICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; CEFTRIAXONE; CLAVULANIC ACID; ERGOT ALKALOID; FUMONISIN; FUMONISIN B1; INDOMETACIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MONILIFORMIN; MYCOTOXIN; NIVALENOL; OCHRATOXIN; OLTIPRAZ; PATULIN; SALBUTAMOL; T 2 TOXIN; TRICHOTHECENE DERIVATIVE; VOMITOXIN; ZEARALENONE;

AFLATOXICOSIS; APNEA; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; BONE MARROW DEPRESSION; CHILD; CLAVICEPS PURPUREA; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CLOTHING; CONJUNCTIVITIS; COUGHING; DRUG ACTIVITY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPISTAXIS; ERGOTISM; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD INTAKE; FUNGAL CONTAMINATION; FURNITURE; FUSARIUM; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL NEPHRITIS; KIDNEY CANCER; LIVER CANCER; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; MYCOSIS; MYCOTOXICOSIS; NAUSEA; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; NONHUMAN; PEDIATRICIAN; PENICILLIUM; PNEUMONIA; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; RASH; RECURRENT DISEASE; STACHYBOTRYS CHARTARUM; SYMPTOM; TESTIS CANCER; TRICHODERMA VIRIDE; VOMITING; WHEEZING;

ACUTE DISEASE; APNEA; BONE MARROW DISEASES; CHILD; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; MYCOTOXICOSIS; MYCOTOXINS; NEOPLASMS; PEDIATRICS; SYNDROME; VOMITING;

EID: 33747766787     PISSN: 15385442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cppeds.2006.05.003     Document Type: Article

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