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Fish Odour

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Fish Odour
A piscine odour described in various conditions—e.g., vaginosis, caused by a newly described Mobiluncus genus, Gardnerella vaginalis, excretion of trimethylaminuriae—due to large doses of l-carnitine, ‘rotting’ fish, di-N-butylamine, diethylamine, stools infected by Vibrio cholera, which have a ‘rice-water’ appearance; a rancid fish odor is described in tyrosinemia, which may occur in hereditary tyrosinosis/tyrosinemia type I or in severe liver failure


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