pink disease

The main agent within this pink disease happens to be the bacteria.

Soon after the powders were taken off the market, pink disease disappeared.

Pink disease is characterized by the fruit developing a brownish to black discoloration when heated during the canning process.

Pink disease: caused by the fungus Corticium salmonicolor.

The pink disease in pineapples causes the fruit to turn a slight pink color only to eventually become brown and then rot.

During much of the 20th-century, children suffered from an ailment called pink disease, which caused peeling skin on the extremities as well as regressive behavior.

In another major contribution, Dr. Warkany discovered the cause of acrodynia, or pink disease, enabling its eradication.

It was removed from most powders in 1954 when it was shown to cause "pink disease" (acrodynia), a form of mercury poisoning.

Only about 1 in 500 children whose parents gave them calomel got pink disease - suggesting that a constitutional vulnerability to mercury was part of the clinical picture.

Erythricium salmonicolor attacks woody commercial crops (citrus, coffee, rubber, etc.) in the tropics, causing "pink disease".

Mercury poisoning can result in several diseases, including acrodynia (pink disease), Hunter-Russell syndrome, and Minamata disease.

The causal agents of pink disease are the bacteria Acetobacter aceti, Gluconobacter oxydans, and Pantoea citrea.

Other diseases include pink disease, bacterial heart rot, anthracnose, fungal heart rot, root rot, black rot, butt rot, fruitlet core rot, and yellow spot virus.

Infantile acrodynia (also known as "calomel disease", "erythredemic polyneuropathy", and "pink disease") is a type of mercury poisoning in children characterized by pain and pink discoloration of the hands and feet.

Also known as pink disease, Swift disease, Feer disease, Selter disease, erythroderma, erythroderma polyneuritis, dermatopolyneuritis, trophodermatoneurosis, erythema arthricum epidemicum, vegetative neurosis, and vegetative encephalitis.

Calomel was also a common ingredient in teething powders in Britain up until 1954, causing widespread mercury poisoning in the form of pink disease, which at the time had a mortality rate of 1 in 10.