Alimentary toxic aleukia

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Alimentary toxic aleukia, is a mycotoxin-induced condition characterized by nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, leukopenia (aleukia), hemorrhaging, skin inflammation, and sometimes death.<ref>,

 Alimentary toxic aleukia (septic angina, endemic panmyelotoxicosis, alimentary hemorrhagic aleukia): t-2 toxin-induced intoxication of cats, 
 Am J Pathol, 
 
 Vol. 104,
 pp. 189–91,
 
 PMID: 6973281,
 PMC: 1903757,</ref> Alimentary toxic aleukia almost always refers to the human condition associated with presence of T2 Toxin.

History

Alimentary toxic aleukia was first characterized in the early 19th century after affecting a large population in the Orenburg district of the former U.S.S.R. during World War II. The sick people had eaten overwintered grain colonized with Fusarium sporotrichioides and Fusarium poae.<ref>,

 Mycotoxins, 
 Clin. Microbiol. Rev., 
 
 Vol. 16(Issue: 3),
 pp. 497–516,
 DOI: 10.1128/cmr.16.3.497-516.2003,
 PMID: 12857779,
 PMC: 164220,</ref>

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