| [evaluation of antilles fish ciguatoxicity by mouse and chick bioassays]. | ciguatera is a common seafood poisoning in western atlantic and french west indies. ciguatera fish poisoning in the caribbean is a public health problem. a toxicological study was carried out on 178 caribbean fish specimens (26 species) captured off guadeloupe and saint barthelemy between 1993 and 1999. the mouse bioassay and the chick feeding test were used to control fish edibility. ciguatoxins presence was assumed when symptomatology was typical of ciguatera in mouse and chick. fishes were cl ... | 2003 | 12784589 |