Because of your diagnostic excellence, you have been invited to the Medical Mystery
Quizz show which is televised throughout the Universe. You are asked to match the
pictures (A-D) with the numbers (1-4). Answers: A-3 (phycotoxins); B-1(aflatoxins);
C-4 (ibotenic acid), D-2 (nitroso compounds)
A 
B 
A blue green algae bloom. Algae when Bread mold is usually due to aspergillus
or a
airborn are allergenic, and when in- zygomycete. Ingestion of moldy bread
may cause
gested (e.g. by eating infected shellfish) a "stomach ache" or, in extreme cases,
gastric
may be neurotoxic. Algae toxins include necrosis. These molds may produce aflatoxins. phycotoxins, brevetoxins, and ichthyo-
toxins.
C 
D 
This mushroom (Amanita muscaria) produces Black mold is allergenic and potentially toxic ibotenic acid, a potent agonist of metabo- due to its production of nitroso compunds. tropic glutamate receptors.