Bloom of which species of dinoflagellate has recently been attributed to death from paralytic shelfish poisoning in Alaska?
Alexandrium Catenella bloom resulted accumulation of saxitoxin in blue mussels and dogwinkle snails. Ingestion of these self harvested mollusks resulted in death of a patient in a remote Alaskan village.
Courtney Temple & Adrienne Hughes (2021) A case of fatal paralytic shellfish poisoning in Alaska, Clinical Toxicology, DOI: 10.1080/15563650.2021.1967373
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