Fatal Mushroom Poisoning
- 1 August 1963
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 269 (5) , 223-227
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm196308012690501
Abstract
FATAL mushroom poisoning is uncommon in this country. Although it was first recorded in 18711 few reports have since appeared in the American literature. Buck2 has reviewed 24 fatal cases reported since 1924. Eleven of these were due to Amanita verna and its subspecies and the American phenotypes of A. phalloides. The highly lethal toxins contained in these mushrooms of the bulb-agaric group are phalloidin, phalloin and alpha, beta and gamma amanitin. (The bulb-agaric group does not include A. muscaria, which contains the rapid-acting but less fatal toxin, muscarin.) Identification of the "amanita toxins" in human tissues has . . .Keywords
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