FJR Max Taylor, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Published online: March 2004
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0001936
Shellfish poisoning is the illness or death of humans, and other mammals and seabirds, caused by the consumption of shellfish that have been contaminated by eating toxin-producing microscopic algal species during harmful algal blooms (HABs).
Keywords: harmful algal blooms; toxins; dinoflagellates; diatoms; red tide
| References | |
| book Association of Official Analytical Chemistry (AOAC) (1980) "Paralytical shellfish poison biological method". In: Official Methods of Analysis, 13th edn. Washington, DC, pp. 298–299. | |
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| Further Reading | |
| book Botana LM (ed) (2000) Seafood and Freshwater Toxins. Pharmacology, Physiology and Detection. New York, Basel: Marcel Dekker. | |
| Daranas AH, Norte M and Fernandez JJ (2001) Toxic marine microalgae, a review. Toxicon 39: 1101–1132. | |
| other Hall S and Strichartz G (eds) (1990) Marine toxins: origin, structure and molecular pharmacology. ACS Symposium Series 418. | |
| Hallegraeff G (1993) A review of harmful algal blooms and their apparent increase. Phycologia 32: 79–99. | |
| Plumley FG (1997) Marine algal toxins: biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology. Limnology and Oceanography 42: 152–164. | |
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