The dinoflagellate Alexandrium catenella producing only carbamate toxins may account for the seafood poisonings in Qinhuangdao, China - Yu RC, Zhang QC, Liu Y, Chen ZF, Geng HX, Dai L, Lin ZR, Tang WJ, Kong FZ, Yan T, Zhou MJ.

An outbreak of paralytic shellfish poisoning, recorded in April 2016 in Qinhuangdao China, was suspected to be caused by a toxic species in genus Alexandrium. Shortly after the poisoning outbreak, shellfish and net-concentrated phytoplankton samples were c...
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