Sodium azide poisoning at a restaurant - Dallas County, Texas, 2010

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

Volumn 61, Issue 25, 2012, Pages 457-460

  Schwarz, Evan S ^a   Wax, Paul M ^a   Kleinschmidt, Kurt C ^a   Sharma, Kapil ^a   Todd, Elizabeth ^b   Spargo, Erin ^b   Chung, Wendy M ^c   Cantu, Gabriela ^c   Janneh, Mariama ^c   Rodriguez, Juan ^c   Derse, Taye ^c   Schier, Joshua G ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Dallas County Southwestern Institute of Forensic Sciences   (United States)

^c Dallas County Dept of Health and Human Svcs   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SODIUM AZIDE; VASODILATOR AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CASE REPORT; CATERING SERVICE; CHEMISTRY; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TEA; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RESTAURANTS; SODIUM AZIDE; TEA; TEXAS; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 84864976822     PISSN: 01492195     EISSN: 1545861X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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