Human fatality due to ingestion of the crab Demania reynaudii that contained a palytoxin-like toxin.
Clinical accounts of a human fatality resulting from ingestion of the crab Demania reynaudii are documented. The causative toxin was suggested to be palytoxin on the basis of dose-death time relationships and chromatographic properties.
D000178:Acrylamides; D000818:Animals; D003386:Brachyura; D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid; D003064:Cnidarian Venoms / Q000506:poisoning*; D005517:Foodborne Diseases; D006339:Heart Rate / Q000187:drug effects; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008387:Marine Toxins / Q000506:poisoning*; D008875:Middle Aged; D000095702:Polyether Toxins
D000178:Acrylamides; D003064:Cnidarian Venoms; D008387:Marine Toxins; C010272:palytoxin; D000095702:Polyether Toxins