Blooms of autotrophic algae and some heterotrophic protists are increasingly frequent in
coastal waters around the world and are collectively grouped as harmful algal blooms …

Abstract" Cyanobacterial toxins are among the hazardous substances most widely found in
water. They occur naturally, but concentrations hazardous to human health are usually due …

The last few years have brought about many changes in the field of marine and freshwater
toxins, with advances in analytical technology and the realization that these toxins are a …

The actual knowledge on the diarrhoeic shellfish poisoning and lipophilic phycotoxins (DSP,
yessotoxins, pectenotoxins and azaspiracids) is reviewed in this work. The most relevant …

Brevetoxins (BTXs) are marine biotoxins responsible for neurotoxic shellfish poisoning
(NSP) after ingestion of contaminated shellfish. NSP is characterized by neurological …

Farmed pearl oysters (Pinctada maxima) suffered high mortality in the Dampier Archipelago
of Western Australia in 1996. The mortality event affected all oyster sizes and coincided with …

In recent decades, toxic cyanobacterial blooms have become frequent in the drinking water
supply and have caused serious deleterious effects to domestic and wild animals, as well as …

This paper provides an extensive review of different aspects of five shellfish-poisoning
syndromes (paralytic, diarrhoeic, amnesic, neurologic and azapiracid), as well as one fish …

Brevetoxins (BTXs) constitute a family of lipid-soluble toxic cyclic polyethers mainly
produced by Karenia brevis, which is the main vector for a foodborne syndrome known as …

This study investigated the effect of steam cooking on distribution of paralytic shellfish
poisoning toxins (PSP-toxins) in scallops Patinopecten yessoensis. Toxins analysis by high …