Citation

Karunasagar I, Karunasagar I, Oshima Y, Yasumoto T. Toxicon 1990; 28(7): 868-870.

Affiliation

Department of Fishery Microbiology, College of Fisheries, University of Agricultural Sciences, Mangalore, India.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1990, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

2219145

Abstract

Toxin profiles of clams and oysters involved in the outbreak of paralytic shellfish poisoning in India in 1983 were studied by a liquid chromatographic technique. Gonyautoxins 1, 2, 3, 4 and 8, and 11-epigonyautoxin 8 appeared to be the major toxins along with small amounts of saxitoxin, neosaxitoxin, decarbamoylsaxitoxin, decarbamoylgonyautoxins 2 and 3, C3 and C4. Toxin profile suggests the involvement of Alexandrium spp. in this outbreak.

Language: en