Mushroom Poisonings: Risk Assessment, Epidemiology, and Identification of Causative Factors
A special issue of Toxins (ISSN 2072-6651). This special issue belongs to the section "Mycotoxins".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2020) | Viewed by 5353
Special Issue Editors
Interests: Toxicology in vitro; Risk assessment; Food quality; Food safety
Interests: limnology; freshwater ecology; lakes eutrophication; lake–catchment relations; fish ecology; benthic invertebrates; pharmaceutical pollution
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Mushroom poisoning is a significant, potentially life-threatening health event that is recognized globally. Gathered data and conducted research have allowed researchers to identify toxic mushroom species and some of the causative factors of mushroom poisoning. However, certain gaps still exist in the field: the poisonous of selected mushrooms is raising, the causative factors for other poisonous mushrooms are yet to be identified, and clinically-available diagnostic tests for some other remain to be developed. Foraging of wild mushrooms is still popular in some parts of the world, while consumption of cultivated forms is on the rise. Therefore, there is an ongoing need to push forward the research in that field and to present high-quality reports of cases of mushroom poisonings.
This Special Issue will welcome original and review manuscripts that focus on the following:
- clinical cases of mushroom poisonings in human and animals
- idiosyncratic reactions following the consumption of wild edible mushrooms
- in vitro and in vivo toxicological screenings of wild and cultivated mushrooms
- analytical studies aiming to identify potential causative factors of mushroom toxicity
- development of novel methods allowing for identification of mushroom toxins in clinical settings
- suggestions for clinical interventions in poisonings with mushrooms
- metadata analysis on epidemiology of mushroom poisoning in different world regions and over time
Dr. Barbara PoniedziałekDr. Piotr Klimaszyk
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Mushroom Poisonings
- Wild Mushrooms
- Cultivated Mushrooms
- Experimental Toxicology
- Clinical Toxicology
- Mycology
