Paralytic shellfish poisoning due to ingestion of contaminated mussels: A 2018 case report in Caparica (Portugal)

In Portugal, the potent paralytic shellfish toxins (PSTs) have appeared irregularly since the onset of a national monitoring program for marine biotoxins in 1986. In years where high contamination levels were attained in bivalves, sporadic cases of human poisonings have been recorded, as in 1994 and...

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Main Authors: Isabel Lopes de Carvalho, Ana Pelerito, Inês Ribeiro, Rita Cordeiro, Maria Sofia Núncio, Paulo Vale
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019-10-01
Series:Toxicon: X
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590171019300141