Human fatality associated with Pacific ciguatoxin contaminated fish

Toxicon

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 668-673

  Hamilton, Brett ^a   Whittle, Nigel ^b   Shaw, Glen ^a   Eaglesham, Geoff ^b   Moore, Michael R ^a,b   Lewis, Richard J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND HEALTH   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ciguatera; Ciguatoxin; CTX; Fatal marine poisoning; Mass spectrometry; Pacific ciguatoxin

Indexed keywords

BREVETOXIN; CIGUATOXIN; CIGUATOXIN 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BINDING ASSAY; CASE REPORT; CIGUATERA; FATALITY; FISH; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HEART INFARCTION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INCIDENCE; LIVER LEVEL; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSED PHASE HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; TISSUE LEVEL; TOXIN ANALYSIS; TOXIN STRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CIGUATERA POISONING; HUMANS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PACIFIC OCEAN; RADIOLIGAND ASSAY;

CIGUATERA; PISCES;

EID: 77954240882     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2009.06.007     Document Type: Article

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