Dose-Response Modelling of Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning (PSP) in Humans [PDF]
Toxins, 2018 Paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) is caused by a group of marine toxins with saxitoxin (STX) as the reference compound. Symptoms in humans after consumption of contaminated shellfish vary from slight neurological and gastrointestinal effects to fatal ...
Nathalie Arnich, Anne Thébault
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Case Report: Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning in Sabah, Malaysia [PDF]
Am J Trop Med Hyg, 2017 During the months of January–February and May–June 2013 coinciding with the red tide occurrence in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia, six episodes involving 58 cases of paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) or saxitoxin (STX) poisoning and resulting in four ...
Tock H. Chua +3 more
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Paralytic shellfish poisoning due to ingestion of contaminated mussels: A 2018 case report in Caparica (Portugal) [PDF]
Toxicon: X, 2019 In Portugal, the potent paralytic shellfish toxins (PSTs) have appeared irregularly since the onset of a national monitoring program for marine biotoxins in 1986. In years where high contamination levels were attained in bivalves, sporadic cases of human
Isabel Lopes de Carvalho +5 more
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Lethal paralytic shellfish poisoning from consumption of green mussel broth, Western Samar, Philippines, August 2013 [PDF]
Western Pacific Surveillance and Response, 2015 Background: In July 2013, the Philippines’ Event-Based Surveillance & Response Unit received a paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) report from Tarangnan, Western Samar.
Paola Katrina Ching +4 more
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Methodologies for detoxifying bivalves from marine paralytic shellfish toxins [PDF]
Mar DrugsThe marine environment emerges as a key provider of food and sustainable products. However, these benefits are accompanied by numerous challenges owing to harmful algal blooms (HAB) and their associated biotoxins, which accumulate in organisms, like ...
Cristiano, Maria de Lurdes +2 more
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A Fresh Perspective on Cyanobacterial Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning Toxins: History, Methodology, and Toxicology [PDF]
Marine DrugsParalytic shellfish poisoning toxins (PSPTs) are a class of neurotoxins most known for causing illness from consuming contaminated shellfish. These toxins are also present in freshwater systems with the concern that they contaminate drinking and ...
Zacharias J. Smith +3 more
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Differential Proteomic Analysis of Low-Dose Chronic Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning [PDF]
Marine DrugsShellfish poisoning is a common food poisoning. To comprehensively characterize proteome changes in the whole brain due to shellfish poisoning, Tandem mass tag (TMT)-based differential proteomic analysis was performed with a low-dose chronic shellfish ...
Xiujie Liu +7 more
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Spatiotemporal distribution of paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) toxins in shellfish from Argentine Patagonian coast [PDF]
Heliyon, 2019 Harmful algal blooms (HABs) have been recorded in the Chubut Province, Argentina, since 1980, mainly associated with the occurrence of paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) toxins produced by dinoflagellates of the genus Alexandrium.
Leilén Gracia Villalobos +4 more
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Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning (ASP) and Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning (PSP) in Nigerian Coast, Gulf of Guinea [PDF]
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2018 This investigation is aimed at providing a baseline survey of the current status of the occurrence and spatio-temporal distribution of amnesic shellfish poisoning (ASP) and paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) in the Nigerian coast, Gulf of Guinea.
Medina Omo Kadiri, Solomon Isagba
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“Algal-dromes”: a novel conceptual approach to illness in humans exposed to harmful algal bloom toxins [PDF]
Frontiers in ToxicologyAlthough adverse health effects from harmful algal bloom (HAB) toxins have been described since antiquity, the true worldwide incidence and disease burden has yet to be defined.
Brett Johnson +4 more
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