It is a biomicrobial toxin.
A palytoxin is a variety of marine toxin which can cause ciguatera.
A palytoxin is a variety of marine toxin which can cause ciguatera.
Ciguatera is a type of sea food poisoning caused by the consumption of fish, especially certain tropical reef fish, which contain one or more naturally occurring neurotoxins from the family of ciguatoxins and maititoxins
A toxin is any type of poison
Ciguatera (from the Spanish word for a poisonous snail) is a food-related illness that causes abdominal and neurological symptoms.
Ciguatera Fish Poisoning is a food poisoning caused by eating a certain fish, a marine finfish (e.g. barracuda), that has eaten certain algae. The algae make a toxin that is not so harmful for the fish, but it is to humans.
There is no visual test for the presence or absence of ciguatera. Old wive's tales used to say you could boil a silver coin with the fish in question and, if it turned black, ciguatera was present. This however there is no proven indication that this works. Another more accurate test was, if the fish was "Longer than your arm; long enough to do you harm." This probably was more accurate in that larger fish may have had a chance to concentrate more ciguatera in their systems, but again, there is no proof of this method either. Ciguatera is known to usually appear in high end, top-of-the-food-chain predators, and is assumed to be a cumulative that concentrates near the top of the food chain, originating in dinoflagellates. Fish taken from the same location where ciguatera was found may or may not be positive for ciguatera. In summary, there's no test for ciguatera that doesn't destroy the meat.
Ciguatera Fish Poisoning is a food poisoning caused by eating a certain fish, a marine finfish (e.g. barracuda), that has eaten certain algae. The algae make a toxin that is not so harmful for the fish, but it is to humans.
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A toxin-mediated infection is caused when a living organism is consumed with food (as in the case of an infection). Once the organism is inside the human body, it produces a toxin that causes the illness. Toxin-mediated infection is different from an intoxication because the toxin is produced inside the human body. An example of an organism that causes this type of illness is Clostridium perfringens.