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Am. J. Trop. Med., s1-30(5), 1950, pp. 785-793
Copyright © 1950 by American Journal of Tropical Medicine

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Seventeen Cases of Poisoning Due to Ingestion of an Eel, Gymnothorax Flavimarginatus1

Constantine T. Khlentzos, M.D.2,3,

1. A total of fifty-seven people became poisoned after eating a poisonous cooked eel of whom seventeen were hospitalized.
2. Of the seventeen patients, eleven were admitted in coma, and of the remaining six, three became comatose after a few hours of hospitalization.
3. Treatment was symptomatic, and their symptoms provided a major nursing problem.
4. Of the seventeen, two died and one required a tracheotomy as a result of vocal cord steonosis following intubation.


1 Aided by the Staff of the 22nd General Hospital, Guam: Colonel J. E. Graham; Majors R. B. Dickerson and I. J. Tender; Captains R. A. Allen, R. H. Belser, T. J. Boyden, J. R. Cantrell, D. G. Ferguson, R. M. Kaplan, S. M. Kemler, E. O. Lukasek, W. B. Nalley, J. W. Owen, Jr., R. H. Davis, B. H. Ruttenberg, R. J. Sullivan; and Nursing Staff.


2 Formerly Captain, M.C., 22nd General Hospital, Guam, M. I.


3 11 Middlefield Drive, San Francisco 16, California.







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