A Case of Severe Puffer Fish Poisoning: Serum Tetrodotoxin Concentration Measurements for 4 Days after Ingestion
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Yasumasa Iwasaki1, Akira Namera2, Hiroshi Giga1, Yoshiko Kida1, Kohei Ota1, Kazunobu Une1, Tadatsugu Otani1, Shinichiro Ohshimo1, Nobuyuki Hirohashi1, Koichi Tanigawa1 1Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan 2Department of Forensic Medicine, Institute of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan *Corresponding author: Yasumasa Iwasaki, Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan, Tel: 81-90-8242-4859; E-mail: [email protected]
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