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Due to the rapidly increasing consumption of exotic food in Western countries, it is no surprise that cases of shiitake dermatitis are now appearing in Europe. The mechanism of shiitake dermatitis is thought to be toxic and due to lentinan, a polysaccharide component of the mushroom. There is no specific validated treatment for shiitake dermatitis. Health professionals and the general population should be aware of both the risk associated with raw shiitake consumption and of the good prognosis of this very spectacular and uncomfortable toxic dermatitis.

Rodenticides involved are representative of the market share of anticoagulants, for human and domestic animal exposures. In wildlife, bromadiolone and chlorophacinone are by far the most important products, being the only ones registered for field use. There is no report of mortality in the human data, and less than 1% of all exposure cases in domestic animals were fatal.

The NS is very different from the common gastrointestinal syndrome occurring after ingestion of poorly cooked morels and is not limited to a cerebellar syndrome.

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