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Mushroom Toxins — A Brief Review of the Literature

1961; Massachusetts Medical Society; Volume: 265; Issue: 14 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1056/nejm196110052651406

1533-4406

Robert W. Buck,

Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions

Deaths from mushroom poisoning are uncommon in this country chiefly because gathering wild mushrooms for the table is the hobby of only a few enthusiasts, but also because the great bulk of fungi are harmless. A few are deadly.Of 24 fatal cases recorded in American literature since 1924 and in personal communications, 11 were due to the bulb agarics with white, amyloid-staining spores (Amanita verna and its subspecies and American phenotypes of A. phalloides),† 7 to the ascomycete Gyromitra esculenta, 1 to the panther mushroom A. pantherina, whose white spores do not take the amyloid . . .