Outbreak of beriberi in the state of Maranhão, Brazil: revisiting the mycotoxin aetiologic hypothesis

Autor:	Greice Madeleine Ikeda do Carmo, Ana Carolina Faria Silva e Santelli, Rosângela Rosa Machado, Francisca Bernardes de Paiva, Karla Neves Laranjeira Braga, José Ricardo Pio Marins, Eucilene Alves Santana Porto, Rejane Maria de Souza Alves, Helena Cristina Alves Vieira Lima, Jeremy Sobel
Rok vydání:	2010
Předmět:	Adult Male Adolescent Food Contamination Beriberi Poor quality Disease Outbreaks Young Adult chemistry.chemical_compound Beri beri Risk Factors Environmental health medicine Humans Thiamine Mycotoxin Chromatography High Pressure Liquid Thiamine deficiency business.industry Fungi Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health food and beverages Outbreak Oryza Middle Aged Mycotoxins medicine.disease B vitamins Infectious Diseases Socioeconomic Factors chemistry Case-Control Studies Food Microbiology Female business Brazil
Zdroj:	Tropical Doctor. 40:95-97
ISSN:	1758-1133 0049-4755
Popis:	Beriberi is caused by thiamine deficiency. Early 20th century epidemics in Japan were attributed to rice contaminated by citreoviridin mycotoxin. Our investigation of an outbreak of beriberi in Brazil showed an association of beriberi with the consumption of poor quality subsistence farming rice, although, unlike other investigators of this outbreak, we did not identify citreoviridin producing fungi in the implicated rice.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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