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HARMFUL ALGAL BLOOMS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA: EFFECTS ON HUMAN HEALTH.
Euromediterranean Biomedical Journal, 2013 A harmful algal bloom (HAB) is defined as a bloom that has deleterious effects on plants, animals or humans. Marine algal toxins are responsible for an array of human illnesses associated with consumption of seafood or exposure to aerosolized toxins ...
Margherita Ferrante
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Toxins, 2018 Paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) is a severe food-borne illness, caused by the ingestion of seafood containing paralytic shellfish toxins (PST), which are naturally produced by marine dinoflagellates and accumulate in shellfish during algae blooms ...
Pedro Reis Costa +2 more
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Aptamer Sensor Based on Hybrid Chain Reaction and CRISPR-Cas9 System for STX Detection
Chemosensors, 2023 In recent years, pollution incidents caused by red tide occur frequently, and the red tide biotoxins brought by it make the food safety problem of seafood become a difficult problem to be solved urgently, which has caused great damage to the mariculture ...
Qinguo Zhao, Guizhen Li, Xuemei Li
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Toxins, 2022 The harmful microalgae Gymnodinium catenatum is a unique naked dinoflagellate that produces paralytic shellfish poisoning toxins (PSTs). This species is common along the coasts of the Mexican Pacific and is responsible for paralytic shellfish poisoning ...
Francisco E. Hernández-Sandoval +7 more
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SoundToxins: A Research and Monitoring Partnership for Harmful Phytoplankton in Washington State
Toxins, 2023 The more frequent occurrence of marine harmful algal blooms (HABs) and recent problems with newly-described toxins in Puget Sound have increased the risk for illness and have negatively impacted sustainable access to shellfish in Washington State. Marine
Vera L. Trainer, Teri L. King
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Dose-Response Modelling of Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning (PSP) in Humans
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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Potential to produce brown mussel integrated to a net-cage fish farm in a Mediterranean bay
Aquaculture Reports, 2023 In this study, we investigated the potential exploitation of the brown mussel Perna perna (Linnaeus, 1758) in an aquaculture farm (Monastir Bay, Mediterranean Sea, Tunisia).
Walid Medhioub +13 more
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Tetrodotoxin and paralytic shellfish toxins in Philippine crabs.
Agricultural and Biological Chemistry, 1986 The frequent occurrence of lethal specimens of Zosimus aeneus and Atergatis floridus on southern Negros Island, Philippines, was confirmed by mouse lethality tests. Among eight specimens of Z. aeneus analyzed by fluorometric liquid chromatography, tetrodotoxin and its derivatives were dominant in five indicating the possible involvement of tetrodotoxin
YASUMURA, Daisuke +4 more
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Toxins, 2015 Paralytic Shellfish Toxin blooms are common worldwide, which makes their monitoring crucial in the prevention of poisoning incidents. These toxins can be monitored by a variety of techniques, including mouse bioassay, receptor binding assay, and liquid ...
Marisa Silva +4 more
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Toxins, 2019 The occurrence of Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) and bacteria can be one of the great threats to public health due to their ability to produce marine toxins (MTs).
Isidro José Tamele +2 more
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