CIGUATERA POISONING: PACIFIC DISEASE, FOODBORNE POISONING FROM FISH IN WARM SEAS AND OCEANS. Review

• Published in: Journal of IMAB Vol. 23; no. 1; pp. 1474 - 1479
• Main Authors: Zlateva, Snezha, Marinov, Petko, Yovcheva, Marieta, Bonchev, Georgi, Ivanov, Dobri, Georgiev, Kaloyan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Peytchinski Publishing 21.02.2017
• Subjects: ciguatera poisoning; ciguatoxin; dinoflagellates; domoic acid; ichtyosarcotoxicosis; meitotoxin

Purpose: The review is provoked because of lack of awareness of the medical practitioners in Bulgaria concerning of the ethnology, pathogenesis, clinical symptoms and treatment of the ciguatera fish poisoning (CFP). This can be a source of prolonged diagnostic delays, as some cases reporting in anot...