Evaluation of the production of paralytic shellfish poisoning toxins by extracellular bacteria isolated from the toxic dinoflagellate Alexandrium minutum

Canadian Journal of Microbiology

Volumn 55, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 943-954

  Prol, María Jesús ^a,b   Guisande, Cástor ^a   Barreiro, Aldo ^a   Míguez, Beatriz ^a   De La Iglesia, Pablo ^a   Villar, Adriano ^a   Gago Martínez, Ana ^a   Combarro, María Pilar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES MARINAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Alexandrium minutum; Bacteria; High performance liquid chromatography (HPLC); Mass spectrometry (MS); Paralytic shellfish poisoning toxins

Indexed keywords

ALEXANDRIUM MINUTUM; BACTERIAL CELLS; CELL SURFACES; CULTURABLE BACTERIA; CULTURE MEDIUM; EXTRACELLULAR; FLUORESCENCE DETECTION; FLUORESCENT COMPOUNDS; HIGH-PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY (HPLC); HPLC-FLD; MARINOMONAS; NUMERICAL TAXONOMY; PARALYTIC SHELLFISH POISONING; PARALYTIC SHELLFISH POISONING TOXINS; PSEUDOALTEROMONAS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TOXIC DINOFLAGELLATE;

ANTIGENS; BACTERIOLOGY; CELL CULTURE; CELL MEMBRANES; CHROMATOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; CHROMATOGRAPHY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FLUORESCENCE; HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LIQUIDS; LUMINOUS PAINT; MASS SPECTROMETERS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLITES; TAXONOMIES; TOXIC MATERIALS;

HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY;

CELL EXTRACT; FLUORESCENT DYE; SHELLFISH TOXIN;

BACTERIUM; DETECTION METHOD; DINOFLAGELLATE; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PARALYTIC SHELLFISH POISONING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TAXONOMY; TOXIN;

ALEXANDRIUM MINUTUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM; CELLULOPHAGA; CULTURE MEDIUM; DINOFLAGELLATE; FLUORESCENCE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MARINOMONAS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOALTEROMONAS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SHELLFISH POISONING; SURFACE PROPERTY; TAXONOMY; VIBRIO;

ALVEOLATA; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; MARINE TOXINS; MASS SPECTROMETRY;

ALEXANDRIUM MINUTUM; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CELLULOPHAGA; DINOPHYCEAE; MARINOMONAS; PSEUDOALTEROMONAS; VIBRIO;

EID: 69249089253     PISSN: 00084166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/W09-047     Document Type: Article

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