Ciguatera fish poisoning and sea surface temperatures in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies

Toxicon

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 698-710

  Tester, Patricia A ^a   Feldman, Rebecca L ^b   Nau, Amy W ^a   Kibler, Steven R ^a   Wayne Litaker, R ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b RLF Environmental   (United States)

Author keywords

CFP; Ciguatoxins; Climate change; Dinoflagellate; G. belizeanus; G. caribaeus; G. pacificus; G. ruetzleri; Gambierdiscus carolinianus; Gambierdiscus Ribotype 2; Growth rates; Incidence rates; Tropical Pacific Ocean

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; CIGUATERA; CLIMATE CHANGE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DINOFLAGELLATE; GAMBIERDISCUS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROBIAL GROWTH; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; WATER TEMPERATURE;

CARIBBEAN REGION; CIGUATERA POISONING; CLIMATE CHANGE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; SEAWATER; TEMPERATURE; WEST INDIES;

ALGAE; CIGUATERA; DINOPHYCEAE; GAMBIERDISCUS; GAMBIERDISCUS BELIZEANUS; GAMBIERDISCUS PACIFICUS;

EID: 77955847505     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2010.02.026     Document Type: Article

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