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"Ciguatera is a distressing, hitherto-untreatable and not rare disease which results from the eating of ciguatoxin-contaminated fish from tropical and subtropical waters." | ( Gillespie, NC; King, G; Lewis, RJ; Mallett, A; Murtha, W; Pearn, JH; Quinn, J; Ruff, T; Tait, M, 1989) |
"Ciguatera is a type of food poisoning associated with the consumption of contaminated marine fish." | ( Lange, WR; Lipkin, KM; Yang, GC, 1989) |
"Ciguatera fish poisoning is the most common fish poisoning in the United States." | ( Calvert, GM; Hryhorczuk, DO; Leikin, JB, 1987) |
"1." | ( Holmes, MJ; Lewis, RJ, 1993) |
"Ciguatera is a toxin-related disease caused by ingestion of a variety of toxic fish living in tropical or subtropical areas." | ( Glaziou, P; Legrand, AM, 1994) |
"Ciguatera fish poisoning is the most common form of toxin-related food poisoning in the United States." | ( Beadle, A, 1997) |
"Ciguatera is an important form of human poisoning caused by the consumption of seafood." | ( Lehane, L; Lewis, RJ, 2000) |
"The diagnosis of ciguatera is based on the typical history of a fishmeal followed by characteristic clinical findings with predominant neurological symptoms, often including dysaesthesiae, besides gastrointestinal disturbances." | ( Giess, R; Rieckmann, P; Ruprecht, K, 2001) |
"Ciguatera is frequently encountered in Australia." | ( Brown, AF; Ting, JY, 2001) |
"Ciguatera fish poisoning is an important public health problem wherever humans consume tropical and subtropical fish." | ( Auerbach, PS; Hintz, S; Park, DL; Zlotnick, BA, 1995) |
"Ciguatera is a common seafood poisoning in Western Atlantic and French West Indies." | ( Pottier, I; Vernoux, JP, 2003) |
"Ciguatera is the commonest syndrome of marine poisoning and is characterised by moderate to severe gastrointestinal effects (vomiting, diarrhoea, and abdominal cramps) and neurological effects (myalgia, paraesthesia, cold allodynia, and ataxia), but is rarely lethal." | ( Isbister, GK; Kiernan, MC, 2005) |
"Ciguatera is a human food poisoning caused by consumption of tropical and subtropical fish that have, through their diet, accumulated ciguatoxins in their tissues." | ( Bottein Dechraoui, MY; Chinain, M; Cruchet, P; Darius, T; Dickey, RW; Radwan, FF; Ramsdell, JS; Turquet, J; Wang, Z, 2005) |
"Ciguatera is a seafood intoxication that results from ingestion of reef fish contaminated with ciguatoxins at levels orally toxic for humans." | ( Benoit, E; Boydron-Le Garrec, R; Laurent, D; Sauviat, MP, 2005) |
"Ciguatera is a global disease caused by the consumption of certain warm-water fish that have accumulated orally effective levels of sodium channel activator toxins (ciguatoxins) through the marine food chain." | ( Lewis, RJ, 2006) |
"Ciguatera is a global food poisoning caused by the consumption of fish that have accumulated sodium channel activator toxins, ciguatoxins." | ( Fujii, I; Hirama, M; Inoue, M; Lee, N; Tsumuraya, T, 2009) |
"Ciguatera fish poisoning is a seafood-borne illness caused by consumption of fish that have accumulated lipid-soluble ciguatoxins." | ( Dickey, RW; Plakas, SM, 2010) |
"Ciguatera is a distressing and sometimes disabling condition that presents with a self-limiting though occasionally severe gastro-intestinal illness, progressing to a suite of aberrant sensory symptoms." | ( Craig, SB; Eaglesham, GK; Graham, GC; Lewis, RJ; Poole, S; Stewart, I, 2010) |
"Ciguatera is food poisoning caused by human consumption of reef fish contaminated with ciguatoxins (CTXs)." | ( Chan, LL; Chan, WH; Jin, L; Lam, JC; Lam, PK; Mak, YL; Murphy, MB; Sadovy de Mitcheson, Y; Sit, WH; Wu, JJ, 2011) |
"Ciguatera fish poisoning is a travel-related illness characterized by a combination of gastrointestinal and neurological symptoms in persons who eat ciguatoxic seafood in endemic areas." | ( Burchard, GD; Hagelstein, JG; Schlaich, C; Schmiedel, S, 2012) |
"Ciguatera fish poisoning is a seafood intoxication commonly afflicting island communities in the Pacific." | ( Chinain, M; Darius, HT; Dewailly, E; Drescher, O; Laurent, D; Pawlowiez, R; Ponton, D, 2013) |
"Treatment of ciguatera is symptomatic but new treatments, still experimental, give a real hope for the future." | ( Bouchut, J; Oehler, E, 2014) |
"Treatment of ciguatera is primarily supportive and symptomatic." | ( Chan, TY, 2014) |
"Ciguatera fish poisoning is a debilitating human neuro-intoxication caused by consumption of tropical marine organisms, contaminated with bioaccumulated ciguatoxins (CTXs)." | ( Capper, A; Carter, S; Meyer, L, 2015) |
"Ciguatera fish poisoning is an illness suffered by > 50,000 people yearly after consumption of fish containing ciguatoxins (CTXs)." | ( Baden, DG; Bourdelais, AJ; Chinain, M; Darius, HT; Hardison, DR; Holland, WC; Litaker, RW; McCall, JR; Morris, JA; Quintana, HA; Shea, D; Tester, PA, 2016) |
"Ciguatera fish poisoning is common in tropical and sub-tropical areas and larger fish (> 10 kg) are more susceptible to toxin accumulation with age." | ( Farrell, H; Harwood, DT; Manning, J; McNabb, P; Shadbolt, C; Szabo, L; Turahui, JA; van den Berg, DJ; Zammit, A, 2016) |
"Ciguatera fish poisoning is the most frequently reported seafood toxin illness associated with the ingestion of contaminated tropical fish." | ( Derian, A; Khurana, S; Plumlee, C; Rothenberg, J, 2017) |
"Ciguatera is a common but underreported tropical disease caused by the consumption of coral reef fish contaminated by ciguatoxins." | ( Coppes, S; Hellingman, T; Laclé, C; Raman, R, 2019) |
"Ciguatera fish poisoning is a frequently reported non-bacterial food-borne illness related to the consumption of seafood contaminated with ciguatoxins, and possibly maitotoxins." | ( Nascimento, SM; Neves, RAF; Oliveira, PJ; Pardal, MA; Rodrigues, ET; Silva, A, 2020) |
"Ciguatera fish poisoning is caused by the consumption of fish contaminated with ciguatoxins (CTXs)." | ( Buscaglia, P; Fouyet, S; L'Herondelle, K; Le Gall-Ianotto, C; Le Garrec, R; Leschiera, R; Lewis, RJ; Michel, L; Mignen, O; Misery, L; Philippe, R; Pierre, O; Talagas, M, 2021) |
"Ciguatera is a complex clinical syndrome in which peripheral neurological signs predominate in the acute phase of the intoxication but also persist or reoccur long afterward." | ( L'Herondelle, K; Le Garrec, R; Mignen, O; Misery, L; Talagas, M, 2020) |
"Ciguatera is a common marine, toxin-borne illness caused by the consumption of fish that contain toxins that activate voltage-sensitive sodium channels." | ( Johnson-Arbor, KK, 2023) |
"Ciguatera is a major circumtropical poisoning caused by the consumption of marine fish and invertebrates contaminated with ciguatoxins (CTXs): neurotoxins produced by endemic and benthic dinoflagellates which are biotransformed in the fish food-web." | ( Lewis, RJ; Pottier, I; Vernoux, JP, 2023) |