Harmful algal blooms and public health

LM Grattan, S Holobaugh, JG Morris Jr - Harmful algae, 2016 - Elsevier
The five most commonly recognized Harmful Algal Bloom-related illnesses are ciguatera
poisoning, paralytic shellfish poisoning, neurotoxic shellfish poisoning (NSP), amnesic …

Gambierdiscus and Ostreopsis: Reassessment of the state of knowledge of their taxonomy, geography, ecophysiology, and toxicology

ML Parsons, K Aligizaki, MYD Bottein, S Fraga… - Harmful algae, 2012 - Elsevier
Of the known benthic, toxigenic microalgae, species from the genera, Gambierdiscus and
Ostreopsis, present the biggest threats to human and environmental health. Gambierdiscus …

Harmful algal blooms along the North American west coast region: History, trends, causes, and impacts

AJ Lewitus, RA Horner, DA Caron, E Garcia-Mendoza… - Harmful algae, 2012 - Elsevier
Along the Pacific coast of North America, from Alaska to Mexico, harmful algal blooms
(HABs) have caused losses to natural resources and coastal economies, and have resulted …

Review of Florida red tide and human health effects

LE Fleming, B Kirkpatrick, LC Backer, CJ Walsh… - Harmful algae, 2011 - Elsevier
This paper reviews the literature describing research performed over the past decade on the
known and possible exposures and human health effects associated with Florida red tides …

Food safety

A Borchers, SS Teuber, CL Keen… - Clinical reviews in allergy …, 2010 - Springer
Food can never be entirely safe. Food safety is threatened by numerous pathogens that
cause a variety of foodborne diseases, algal toxins that cause mostly acute disease, and …

Environmental status of the Gulf of California: a pollution review

F Páez-Osuna, S Álvarez-Borrego… - Earth-Science …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The Gulf of California (GC) is an unique large ecosystem characterized by its rich
biodiversity, high biological productivity and endemism of marine life. However, as many …

[HTML][HTML] Harmful Algal blooms in Eutrophic Marine environments: causes, monitoring, and treatment

J Lan, P Liu, X Hu, S Zhu - Water, 2024 - mdpi.com
Marine eutrophication, primarily driven by nutrient over input from agricultural runoff,
wastewater discharge, and atmospheric deposition, leads to harmful algal blooms (HABs) …

The distribution and impacts of harmful algal bloom species in eastern boundary upwelling systems

VL Trainer, GC Pitcher, B Reguera… - Progress in oceanography, 2010 - Elsevier
Comparison of harmful algal bloom (HAB) species in eastern boundary upwelling systems,
specifically species composition, bloom densities, toxin concentrations and impacts are …

Paralytic toxin producing dinoflagellates in Latin America: Ecology and physiology

CJ Band-Schmidt, LM Duran-Riveroll… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
In this review we summarize the current state of knowledge regarding taxonomy, bloom
dynamics, toxicity, autoecology, and trophic interactions, of saxitoxin producing …

Dispersion in the Yucatan coastal zone: Implications for red tide events

C Enriquez, IJ Mariño-Tapia… - Continental Shelf …, 2010 - Elsevier
The mechanisms governing dispersion processes in the northern Yucatan coast are
investigated using a barotropic numerical model of coastal circulation, which includes wind …