A case of palytoxin poisoning due to contact with zoanthid corals through a skin injury

Toxicon

Volumn 51, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1535-1537

  Hoffmann, Katrin ^a   Hermanns Clausen, Maren ^b   Buhl, Claus ^a   Büchler, Markus W ^a   Schemmer, Peter ^a   Mebs, Dietrich ^c   Kauferstein, Silke ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Palythoa spp.; Palytoxin poisoning; Parazoanthus; Zoanthids

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CREATINE KINASE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; PALYTOXIN; SEA WATER;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONVALESCENCE; CORAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; FLUID RESUSCITATION; FOLLOW UP; HEART DISEASE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTOXICATION; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; MUSCLE CRAMP; OXYGEN SATURATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHABDOMYOLYSIS; SINUS RHYTHM; SKIN INJURY;

ACRYLAMIDES; ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; CNIDARIAN VENOMS; HUMANS; MALE; POISONING; SKIN;

ANTHOZOA; PALYTHOA; PARAZOANTHUS; PARAZOANTHUS SP.; ZOANTHIDAE; ZOANTHIDEA;

EID: 44649201127     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2008.03.009     Document Type: Article

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