Shellfish toxicity: Human health implications of marine algal toxins

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 138, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 927-940

  James, K J ^a,b   Carey, B ^a,b   O'Halloran, J ^b   Van Pelt, F N A M ^b   Skrabakova Z ^a,b  

^a Munster Technological University   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Food safety; Toxic fish and shellfish poisoning; Toxins

Indexed keywords

AZASPIRACID; BREVETOXIN; MARINE ALGAL TOXIN; MARINE TOXIN; NEUROTOXIN; SAXITOXIN; SHELLFISH TOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALGA; ALGAL BLOOM; AMNESIC SHELLFISH POISONING; AQUACULTURE; AZASPIRACID SHELLFISH POISONING; BIOASSAY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHILL; CLIMATE CHANGE; DIARRHEA; DIARRHOETIC SHELLFISH POISONING; DINOFLAGELLATE; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EUTROPHICATION; FOOD CHAIN; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD POISONING; GASTROENTERITIS; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEMORY DISORDER; MUSSEL; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROTOXIC SHELLFISH POISONING; NONHUMAN; PARALYSIS; PARALYTIC SHELLFISH POISONING; PARESTHESIA; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SHELLFISH POISONING; SYMPTOM;

ALGAE; ANIMALS; BIVALVIA; DISEASE VECTORS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HARMFUL ALGAL BLOOM; HUMANS; MARINE TOXINS; SEAWATER; SHELLFISH POISONING; SPIRO COMPOUNDS;

EID: 77953610038     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268810000853     Document Type: Review

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