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Ciguatera poisoning in Vanuatu.
Ciguatera poisoning is endemic in many tropical and subtropical countries. We conducted a retrospective study of admissions to two hospitals on the islands of Vanuatu in the southwestern Pacific region. We estimated the annual hospital admission rate for fish poisoning to be 65 (95% confidence interval [CI] = 55-75)/100,000 population on the island of Santo and 29 (95% CI = 19-43)/100,000 popul...
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Ciguatera fish poisoning plays an important role in Caribbean marine resource development. Many independent eastern Caribbean island nations rely heavily on marine protein. Current demand in these areas for seafood approaches 775,000 t, a figure greatly in excess of the 200,000 t potential yield, as well as current landings which are near 87,000 t. Annual incidence of ciguatera fish poisoning m...
متن کاملNeurology of ciguatera.
Ciguatera is a widespread ichthyosarcotoxaemia with dramatic and clinically important neurological features. This severe form of fish poisoning may present with either acute or chronic intoxication syndromes and constitutes a global health problem. Ciguatera poisoning is little known in temperate countries as a potentially global problem associated with human ingestion of large carnivorous fish...
متن کاملCiguatera Fish Poisoning
We report three cases of ciguatera fish poisoning. One patient died secondary to respiratory failure. Two patients showed elevated muscle enzymes and one patients had an abnormal cervical spinal MRI. MRI findings have not been previously described. MRI findings explain the mechanism of the L’hermitte phenomenon (a common complaint) among these patients. Respiratory failure is rare in ciguatera ...
متن کاملCiguatera Information Bulletin #3
PIMRIS is a joint project of 4 international organisations concerned with fisheries and marine resource development in the Pacific Islands region. The project is executed by the South Pacific Commission (SPC), the South Pacific Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA), the University of the South Pacific’s Pacific Information Centre (USP-PIC), and the South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission (SOPAC). Fu...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Marine Drugs
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1660-3397
DOI: 10.3390/md17010013