Group 1-A—Orellanine (Delayed Kidney Damage)

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Group 1-A—Orellanine (Delayed Kidney Damage)

The onset of symptoms from ingestion orellanine toxin may occur within 36 hours to 3 weeks after ingestion. Symptoms include nausea, vomiting, lethargy, polyuria, headache, a burning thirst, shivering (usually in the absence of fever), and kidney failure. Cortinarius sp. is a representative genus in which Orellanine is the principal toxin.

Structure of Orellanine toxin