Populations of Rhizobium leguminosarum biovar viciae were sampled from two bulk soils, rhizosphere, and nodules of host legumes, fava bean (Vicia faba) and pea (Pisum sativum) grown in the same soils. Additional populations nodulating peas, fava beans, and vetches (Vicia sativa) grown in other soils and fava bean-nodulating strains from various geographic sites were also analyzed. The rhizobia ...

seizure is a rare presentation for acute hemolysis due to g6pd deficiency. we report a previously healthy boy who presented initially with seizure and cyanosis and subsequently acute hemolysis, due to glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency (g6pd) and probably secondary methemoglobinemia, following the ingestion of fava beans.

The individual differences in response to administered substance (medicament) were observed throughout the whole history of humankind. Pythagoras is thought to be one of the first to observe pharmaco/nutrigenetic interaction as he found out that only some people will get sick after eating fava beans, but others will not. It took approximately 2400 years to elucidate the basis of this observatio...

Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) is an enzyme, playing an important role in the redox metabolism of all aerobic cells. It was reported that certain medications, fava beans, and infections can trigger acute hemolytic anemia in patients with G6PD deficiency. An 8-year-old male patient was admitted to the hospital with blood in the urine, headache, dizziness, fatigue, loss of appetite, and...

During the pandemic influenza A, a five-year-old boy was admitted to the hospital with the complaints of high fever, cough and sneezing. Influenza virus analysis from the nasopharyngeal discharge was positive for influenza A virus. The patient previously had an acute hemolytic attack after eating fava beans, and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency was later established. As he ha...

Favism is an acute haemolytic anaemia caused by an acquired allergy to a protein of the broad bean (Viciafava). Reports of the disease date from before the fifth century B.C. and in a good review of the literature Luisada (1941) points out that favism used to have a very wide distribution in the Mediterranean basin. It now occurs particularly in the Sardinians, who seem to have retained the mor...

In Europe G6PD deficiency is encountered most frequently in Sardinia and Greece but may also be found in other Mediterranean countries (Sansone, Piga, and Segni, 1958; Szeinberg, Asher, and Sheba, 1958), including Yugoslavia (Fraser, Grunwald, and Stamatoyannopoulos, 1966). The occurrence of haemolytic anaemia after ingestion of fava beans in Yugoslavia was first reported as a clinical finding ...

Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency is a common genetic enzyme defect present in many people from African, Middle Eastern, Mediterranean and Asian countries. Individuals with the enzyme deficiency may remain asymptomatic, develop an acute haemolytic crises to infections or Fava beans, neonatal jaundice or chronic non-spherocytic haemolytic anaemia. Electrophoretic mobility may b...

An 18 year old male, known case of Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus was admitted in view of diabetic ketoacidosis. With normalization of blood sugars patient developed gross reddish discoloration of urine. Urine routine microscopy did not reveal RBCs or RBC casts. Peripheral blood smear revealed bite cells, Heinz bodies and spherocytes. Thus a diagnosis of hemolytic anemia with hemoglobinuria was made....