| patterns of experimental contamination by protogonyaulax tamarensis in some french commercial shellfish. | as a result of the proliferation of toxic marine dinoflagellates along european coasts and the recent discovery of paralytic poisons in french shellfish, experimental studies were conducted on four species of shellfish from the brittany coasts. contamination rates of a culture of toxic protogonyaulax tamarensis, were determined for mytilus edulis, crassostrea gigas, pecten maximus and ruditapes philippinarum. mussels and scallops were very rapidly contaminated showing high toxin accumulation rat ... | 1989 | 2629173 |
| the first identification of azaspiracids in shellfish from france and spain. | incidents of human intoxications throughout europe, following the consumption of mussels have been attributed to azaspiracid poisoning (azp). although first discovered in ireland, the search for the causative toxins, named azaspiracids, in other european countries has now led to the first discovery of these toxins in shellfish from france and spain. separation of the toxins, azaspiracid (aza1) and analogues, aza2 and aza3, was achieved using isocratic reversed-phase liquid chromatography coupled ... | 2003 | 12893067 |