A new pathophysiological explanation of ciguaterra
Bagnis, R.; Yasumoto, T.; Chanteau, S.; Inoue, A.
Medecine Tropicale Revue du Corps de Sante Colonial 38(3): 323-325
1978
ISSN/ISBN: 0025-682X PMID: 569243 Document Number: 125668
After pointing out clinical, biochemical and biological similarities between paralytic shellfish poisoning and ciguaterra fish poisoning, the authors describe their recent discoveries in regard to ciguaterra origin. The causal agent searched without results since many years, might be a dinoflagellate, of the genus Diplopsalis.