EDIS, 2007 ENY-741, a 5-page illustrated fact sheet by Jorge R. Rey, describes this form of food poisoning caused by ingestion of saltwater fish and invertebrates that have accumulated in their tissues a certain amount of the toxins produced by dinoflagellates ...
Jorge R. Rey
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A 15-Year Retrospective Review of Ciguatera in the Madeira Islands (North-East Atlantic, Portugal) [PDF]
Toxins, 2023 The first ciguatera fish poisoning (CFP) in Portugal dates from 2008 when 11 people reported CFP symptoms after consuming a 30 kg amberjack caught around the Selvagens Islands (Madeira Archipelago). Since then, 49 human poisonings have been reported. The
Pedro Reis Costa +8 more
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Ciguatera Fish Poisoning in the Caribbean Sea and Atlantic Ocean: Reconciling the Multiplicity of Ciguatoxins and Analytical Chemistry Approach for Public Health Safety [PDF]
Toxins, 2023 Ciguatera is a major circumtropical poisoning caused by the consumption of marine fish and invertebrates contaminated with ciguatoxins (CTXs): neurotoxins produced by endemic and benthic dinoflagellates which are biotransformed in the fish food-web.
Ivannah Pottier +2 more
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Ciguatera Fish Poisoning in East Asia and Southeast Asia
Marine Drugs, 2015 In the coastal countries of East Asia and Southeast Asia, ciguatera should be common because of the extensive tropical and subtropical coral reefs along the coasts and in the neighboring seas with ciguatoxic fishes.
Thomas Y K Chan
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Epidemiology and Clinical Features of Ciguatera Fish Poisoning in Hong Kong
Toxins, 2014 In the present review, the main objective was to describe the epidemiology and clinical features of ciguatera fish poisoning in Hong Kong. From 1989 to 2008, the annual incidence of ciguatera varied between 3.3 and 64.9 (median 10.2) per million people.
Thomas Y K Chan
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Emergence and Epidemiology of Ciguatera in the Coastal Cities of Southern China
Marine Drugs, 2015 In the present review of 23 published case studies, the main objective is to report the emergence and epidemiology of ciguatera in the coastal cities of southern China. There was a sudden surge in ciguatera outbreaks in 2004.
Thomas Y K Chan
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EDIS, 2007 ENY-741S, a 5-page illustrated fact sheet by Jorge R. Rey, is the Spanish language version of ENY-741, Ciguatera. It describes this form of food poisoning caused by ingestion of saltwater fish and invertebrates that have accumulated in their tissues a ...
Jorge R. Rey
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Hereditary diffuse gastric cancer: the evolution of a cancer syndrome. [PDF]
J R Soc N ZABSTRACT Hereditary Diffuse Gastric Cancer (HDGC) is a high risk cancer syndrome caused predominantly by germline mutations in the CDH1 gene. HDGC is characterised by a lifetime risk of advanced diffuse‐type gastric (stomach) cancer of up to 70%, and an additional 40% lifetime risk of lobular breast cancer in women.
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Reviewing Evidence for Disturbance to Coral Reefs Increasing the Risk of Ciguatera [PDF]
ToxinsThe hypothesis that disturbance to coral reefs creates new surfaces that increase the risk of ciguatera is premised upon the increased algal substrates that develop on these surfaces being colonised by high ciguatoxin (CTX)-producing Gambierdiscus ...
Michael J. Holmes, Richard J. Lewis
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Pacific Ciguatoxin-1 (P-CTX-1) in a Moray eel (Gymnothorax javanicus) Responsible for Ciguatera in Khanh Hoa Province, Viet Nam [PDF]
ToxinsOn 5 November 2020, a poisoning event involving four people by the consumption of moray eel occurred in Khanh Hoa Province, Viet Nam, with signs indicative of ciguatera.
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