Marine algal toxins: Origins, health effects, and their increased occurrence

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 108, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2000, Pages 133-141

  Van Dolah, Frances M ^a  

^a CENTER FOR COASTAL ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH AND BIOMOLECULAR RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Amnesic shellfish poisoning; Diarrhetic shellfish poisoning; Dinoflagellates; Domoic acid; Global climate change; Harmful algal blooms; Marine toxins; Neurotoxic shellfish poisoning; Okadaic acid; Paralytic shellfish poisoning

Indexed keywords

DOMOIC ACID; MARINE TOXIN;

ALGA; DINOFLAGELLATE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; EUTROPHICATION; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HUMAN; INTOXICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEA FOOD; SEA POLLUTION; SHELLFISH;

ALGAE; DINOPHYCEAE;

EID: 0034108055     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.00108s1133     Document Type: Review

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