Sentence examples for shellfish toxin from inspiring English sources

Two types of shellfish toxin have been detected: one causes paralysis while the other causes diarrhoea.

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This study was designed to assess the contribution of feeding behavior to inter-individual variability of paralytic shellfish toxin (PST) accumulation in the Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas.

Shellfish toxin contamination is usually acute, sporadic and difficult to predict, as the factors governing the proliferation of harmful phytoplankton are poorly understood.

The clinical presentation may be non-specific, since viral infections, particularly norovirus, or allergy, can cause similar gastrointestinal symptoms to those of shellfish toxin poisonings.

Phenotypic tolerance of individual copepods to paralytic shellfish toxins (PSTs), as determined by fecundity, has recently been reported.

Paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP), a human illness caused by the ingestion of shellfish contaminated with paralytic shellfish toxins (PSTs), has been reported in Alaska for decades.

The ability of two Alexandrium species to produce paralytic shellfish toxins (PST) in laboratory culture following the generation of bacteria-free cultures was investigated.

The capabilities of desorption electrospray ionization-high resolution mass spectrometry (DESI-HRMS) were tested for screening the presence of some paralytic shellfish toxins in clams.

In addition, a synthetic resin adsorbent (SEPABEADS® SP700) which had previously shown to adsorb lipophilic shellfish toxins (LSTs) from seawater was also assessed.

Toxic episodes of diarrhetic shellfish toxins (DSP) in shellfish harvesting areas have serious economic and public health implications, where fluorescent protein phosphatase inhibition assay (FPPIA) may be a highly useful tool for monitoring purposes.