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mycotoxicosis

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mycotoxicosis /my·co·tox·i·co·sis/ (mi″ko-tok-sĭ-ko´sis)
1. poisoning due to a fungal or bacterial toxin.
2. poisoning due to ingestion of fungi, especially mushrooms; see also Amanita.

my·co·tox·i·co·sis (mk-tks-kss)
n.
Poisoning caused by ingestion of a mycotoxin.

mycotoxicosis
[mī′kōtok′sikō′sis]
Etymology: Gk, mykes + toxikon, poison, osis, condition
a systemic poisoning caused by toxins produced by fungal organisms.

mycotoxicosis
1. poisoning due to a fungal toxin.
2. poisoning due to ingestion of fungi is poisoning caused by fungal toxins, resulting from the ingestion of moldy feeds or as toxins produced by fungi that parasitize living plants externally or live in the tissues of the plants as endophytes.
The common toxic fungi on standing crops are Alternaria, Claviceps, Fusarium, Helminthosporium and Rhizopus spp. On stored feeds the common ones are Aspergillus, Fusarium and Penicillium. There are a number of identified specific poisonous fungi, but it is probable that there are a great number of fungal toxic incidents that go unnoticed. Food animals are frequently exposed to fungi on moldy stored food and also on standing plants and on the litter lying at the ground surface in a pasture. See also facial eczema, ryegrass staggers, lupinus poisoning, stachybotryotoxicosis.


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