[A fatal case caused by organophosphorus insecticide intoxication and confirmed by the metabolite found in the blood].
An 83-year-old woman and two other members of her family were poisoned after eating lettuce prepared with Ethimethon Granule 6 instead of salt by mistake. Ethimethon Granule 6 is a mixture of organophosphorus pesticides, disulfoton and diazinon. All three were admitted to a hospital, and she died 22 h after ingestion and the others recovered. Disulfoton and diazinon in the remaining lettuce were detected and confirmed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. The pesticides, however, were not detected in the blood sample collected from the victim at autopsy. A metabolite of disulfoton, phosphorothiolate sulfone, was detected by FPD-gas chromatography, and confirmed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry.
Yashiki
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M
Department of Legal Medicine, Hiroshima University School of Medicine, Japan.
Miyazaki
T
T
Iwasaki
Y
Y
Taniguchi
T
T
Kojima
T
T
Sakai
K
K
Hiraga
M
M
D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002849:Chromatography, Gas; D004222:Disulfoton / Q000097:blood / Q000378:metabolism*; D005260:Female; D008401:Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry; D006801:Humans; D007306:Insecticides / Q000506:poisoning*
D007306:Insecticides; D004222:Disulfoton