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- Title
Outbreak of beriberi in the state of Maranhão, Brazil: revisiting the mycotoxin aetiologic hypothesis.
- Authors
Lima, Helena Cristina Alves Vieira; Porto, Eucilene Alves Santana; Marins, José Ricardo Pio; Alves, Rejane Maria; Machado, Rosângela Rosa; Braga, Karla Neves Laranjeira; de Paiva, Francisca Bernardes; Carmo, Greice Madeleine Ikeda; Silva e Santelli, Ana Carolina Faria; Sobel, Jeremy
- Abstract
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.
- Publication
Tropical doctor, 2010, Vol 40, Issue 2, p95
- ISSN
1758-1133
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1258/td.2009.090439