Concentrations of saxitoxin and tetrodotoxin in three species of puffers from the Indian River Lagoon, Florida, the location for multiple cases of saxitoxin puffer poisoning from 2002 to 2004

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 137, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1317-1326

  Deeds, Jonathan R ^a   White, Kevin D ^a   Etheridge, Stacey M ^a   Landsberg, Jan H ^b  

^a CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^b FISH AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MUSCLE; POISONING; TELEOST; TOXIN;

BANANA RIVER LAGOON; FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; INDIAN RIVER; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

SPHOEROIDES MACULATUS; SPHOEROIDES NEPHELUS; SPHOEROIDES SPENGLERI; SPHOEROIDES TESTUDINEUS; TETRAODONTIDAE;

EID: 57349179908     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T07-204.1     Document Type: Article

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