Updated epidemiology of gastrointestinal cancers in East Asia

J Huang, DE Lucero-Prisno III, L Zhang, W Xu… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Globally, gastrointestinal cancers represent more than one-fourth of all cancer incidence
and one-third of cancer-related mortality. Although there has been much progress in …

Public health impacts of foodborne mycotoxins

F Wu, JD Groopman, JJ Pestka - Annual review of food science …, 2014 - annualreviews.org
Mycotoxins are toxic and carcinogenic metabolites produced by fungi that colonize food
crops. The most agriculturally important mycotoxins known today are aflatoxins, which cause …

Fungal infections in animals: a patchwork of different situations

S Seyedmousavi, SMG Bosco, S De Hoog… - Medical …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The importance of fungal infections in both human and animals has increased over the last
decades. This article represents an overview of the different categories of fungal infections …

Global burden of aflatoxin-induced hepatocellular carcinoma: a risk assessment

Y Liu, F Wu - Environmental health perspectives, 2010 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Background Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), or liver cancer, is the third leading cause of
cancer deaths worldwide, with prevalence 16–32 times higher in develo** countries than …

A review: sample preparation and chromatographic technologies for detection of aflatoxins in foods

K Zhang, K Banerjee - Toxins, 2020 - mdpi.com
As a class of mycotoxins with regulatory and public health significance, aflatoxins (eg,
aflatoxin B1, B2, G1 and G2) have attracted unparalleled attention from government …

Outbreak of an acute aflatoxicosis in Tanzania during 2016

A Kamala, C Shirima, B Jani, M Bakari, H Sillo… - World Mycotoxin …, 2018 - brill.com
In June 2016, an outbreak of an unknown disease was reported to affect clusters of families
in two regions of the central part of Tanzania. A rapid epidemiological survey was conducted …