Food Poisoning

Abstract

This is a chapter describing medical therapy methods for food poisonings. These include Staphylococcal enterotoxemia and other bacterial enterotoxemias due to contamination of food by preformed toxins, botulism, mushroom poisoning and other poisons of plant origin, poisons of fungus origin including ergotism and mycotoxin poisoning, shellfish poisoning and poisons from other aquatic animals, gastroenteritis due to toxin secreting or invasive bacteria.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 16, 1983
Accession Number
ADA129634

Entities

People

  • William R. Beisel

Organizations

  • United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Alkaloids
  • Bacteria
  • Blood
  • Cells
  • Drug Abuse
  • Fish
  • Food Poisoning
  • Fungi
  • Health Services
  • Hematologic Diseases
  • Pain
  • Patient Care
  • Poisoning

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