Venomous Bites, Stings and Poisoning by European Vertebrates as an Overlooked and Emerging Medical Problem: Recognition, Clinical Aspects and Therapeutic Management [PDF]
Life, 2023 Europe presents a high number of venomous and poisonous animals able to elicit medically relevant symptoms in humans. However, since most of the accidents involving venomous or poisonous animals in Europe are unreported, their incidence and morbidity are
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Histological and ultrastructural characterization of the dorso-ventral skin of the juvenile and the adult starry puffer fish (Arothron stellatus, Anonymous 1798) [PDF]
BMC Veterinary Research, 2023 Background The starry puffer fish (Arothron stellatus, Anonymous, 1798) is a poisonous tetradontidae fish inhabiting the Red sea. The skin constitutes an important defense against any external effects.
Fatma A. Madkour +3 more
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A General Food Chain Model for Bioaccumulation of Ciguatoxin into Herbivorous Fish in the Pacific Ocean Suggests Few Gambierdiscus Species Can Produce Poisonous Herbivores, and Even Fewer Can Produce Poisonous Higher Trophic Level Fish [PDF]
ToxinsWe adapt previous conceptual and numerical models of ciguateric food chains for the bioaccumulation of Pacific-ciguatoxin-1 (P-CTX-1) to a general model for bioaccumulation of P-CTX3C by parrotfish (Scarus frenatus, S. niger, and S.
Michael J. Holmes, Richard J. Lewis
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Investigation of the Sugarcane Bagasse Adsorbent Efficiency For Nitrate Removal from Agricultural Outflow Drainage [PDF]
علوم و مهندسی آبیاری, 2017 Nitrate is a non-concentrated source of environmental pollution caused by fertilizer overdose in agricultural wastewater. These poisonous compounds are accumulated in aquatics tissues specially fishes and affect their reproduction and procreation ability.
Milad Hashemi +2 more
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Ciguatera fish poisoning [PDF]
Postgraduate Medical Journal, 1999 SummaryCiguatera fish poisoning is one of a variety of non-bacterial forms of human seafood poisoning. Consuming large predatory fish from tropical reef ecosystems may be hazardous. We describe a case that is typical of the disease, and illustrates the persistence of neurological symptoms that occur in some patients.
J A, Crump, C L, McLay, S T, Chambers
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CIGUATERA POISONING: PACIFIC DISEASE, FOODBORNE POISONING FROM FISH IN WARM SEAS AND OCEANS. Review [PDF]
Journal of IMAB, 2017 Purpose: The review is provoked because of lack of awareness of the medical practitioners in Bulgaria concerning of the ethnology, pathogenesis, clinical symptoms and treatment of the ciguatera fish poisoning (CFP).
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Trauma, poisoning and envenomation caused by fish in Brazil: a review
Infectio, 2022 Injuries caused by traumatic, poisonous and venomous animal are relatively common in the medical practice of many regions, especially in tropical countries, such as Brazil. These include morbid events caused by a wide variety of fish.
Matheus M Novelli
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Scombrotoxic fish poisoning [PDF]
Journal of Public Health, 2005 Scombrotoxic fish poisoning (SFP) is associated with the consumption of contaminated fish of the Scombroid family (including tuna, mackerel, herring, marlin, bonito and jacks). SFP is a chemical intoxication and symptoms occur within 10 minute to 2 h after consumption of preformed histamine in scombroid fish and include rash on the face, neck and upper
J, McLauchlin +3 more
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Developmental changes in foraging-predator avoidance trade-offs in larval lumpfish Cyclopterus lumpus [PDF]
, 1991 The 5-12 wk old larvae increased time spent clinging to a surface in the presence of a predator, trading-off time available for foraging in order to reduce the probability of attack.
Brown, Joseph A., Williams, P. James
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Ciguatera Fish Poisoning [PDF]
Military Medicine, 1997 Ciguatera fish poisoning is the most common form of toxin-related food poisoning in the United States. Originating from dinoflagellates living on coral reefs, it is spread up the food and affects humans who ingest the ciguatoxic fish. Ciguatera is primarily endemic in tropical regions of the world.
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