Are Streptomyces bacteria involved in the ciguatoxicity of the surgeon fish Ctenochaetus striatus?
Chinain, M.; Boiron, P.; Legrand, A.M.; Plichart, R.
Bulletin de la Societe de Pathologie Exotique 85(5 Part 2): 460-463
1992
ISSN/ISBN: 0037-9085 PMID: 1364105 Document Number: 398762
Several Streptomyces strains have been isolated from the digestive tract of the herbivorous fish C. striatus, a preeminent ciguateric fish of Polynesian waters. In order to study the possible role played by these bacteria in the toxicity of this fish, the quantitative and qualitative distributions of these isolates within toxic and non toxic fish are compared. The preliminary results are discussed.