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Bilateral Mastoiditis from Red Tide Exposure

  • Samantha Honner, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center, Oakland, California
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint Address: Samantha Honner, md, Department of Emergency Medicine, Alta Bates Summit Medical Center, 350 Hawthorne Avenue, Oakland, CA 94609
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  • Raphael M. Kudela, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Ocean Sciences and Institute for Marine Sciences, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California
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  • Ethan Handler, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Otolaryngology, Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center, Oakland, California

Received 19 February 2009 ,Revised 27 April 2010 ,Accepted 12 June 2010. Published online 30 August 2010 Corrected Proof

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  14. Honner S, Kudela RM, Handler E. Supporting information and ancillary data for the manuscript “Bilateral mastoiditis from red tide exposure”. Available at: http://oceandatacenter.ucsc.edu/Honner/Accessed February 12, 2010

 Environmental data and analysis were supported by funding to RMK through National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) MERHAB award NA04NOS4780239, and by the Central and Northern California Ocean Observing System through NOAA award NA08NOS4730382.

PII: S0736-4679(10)00517-2

doi: 10.1016/j.jemermed.2010.06.007

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