title: Aflatoxins in liver biopsies from Sudanese children.
abstract: Aflatoxin analysis of 40 percutaneous needle liver biopsies in 27 children with protein-energy malnutrition and 13 children with miscellaneous liver disease in The Sudan is reported. Aflatoxins B1, B2 and aflatoxicol were detected in 5 of the 16 biopsies from kwashiorkor but in none of 11 biopsies from marasmus or marasmic kwashiorkor. Aflatoxins G1, G2 and M2 were detected in 5 of 12 children with chronic liver disease. A very high concentration of aflatoxicol was found in a breast-fed infant with neonatal hepatitis of unknown etiology.
authors.forename: J B
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Coulter
authors.forename: G I
authors.initials: GI
authors.lastname: Suliman
authors.forename: S M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Lamplugh
authors.forename: B I
authors.initials: BI
authors.lastname: Mukhtar
authors.forename: R G
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: Hendrickse
mesh_terms: D016604:Aflatoxin B1; D000348:Aflatoxins / Q000032:analysis*; D001942:Breast Feeding; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007732:Kwashiorkor / Q000378:metabolism; D008099:Liver / Q000032:analysis*; D011502:Protein-Energy Malnutrition / Q000378:metabolism; D013397:Sudan
chemical_list: D000348:Aflatoxins; C012170:aflatoxicol; C029753:aflatoxin B2; D016604:Aflatoxin B1