Citation

Yokoyama K, Gonmori K. Chudoku Kenkyu 2009; 22(3): 240-248.

Affiliation

Department of Legal Medicine, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Handayama 1-20-1, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture 431-3192, Japan.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2009, Yakugyo Jihosha)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

19882971

Abstract

A tropical poisonous mushroom, Chlorophyllum molybdites, invaded into Japan in recent years, and distributed in south-eastern and central part of Japan including 27 Prefectures in 2009; Gunma, Tochigi, Saitama, Ibaraki, Tokyo (including Bonin Islands), Chiba, Shizuoka, Ishikawa, Aichi, Mie, Shiga, Kyoto, Nara, Osaka, Wakayama, Hyogo, Tottori, Okayama, Hiroshima, Yamaguchi, Kagawa, Tokushima, Kochi, Ohita, Kumamoto, Kagoshima and Okinawa. Poisoning by this fungus has increased recently (Table 2). Topics on distribution and poisoning by Russula subnigricans and Podostroma cornu-damae briefly discussed.

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