After pointing out clinical, biochemical and biological similarities between paralytic shellfish poisoning and ciguaterra fish poisoning, the authors describe their recent discoveries in regard to ciguaterra origin. The causal agent searched without results since many years, might be a dinoflagellate, of the genus Diplopsalis.

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[Apropos of 10 cases of shark wounds in underwater fishermen in French Polynesia].

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Clinical aspects of ciguatera (fish poisoning) in French Polynesia.

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[Assay for detection of ciguatoxin using an immunoenzyme technic].

The ELISA method has been used to detect possible anticiguatoxin antibodies in the tissues of toxic fishes. Thin lamellae of toxic fish muscles have been brought into contact on the one hand with antibodies obtained after immunization of the rabbit and the mouse by a human serumalbumine ciguatoxin conjugate and on the other hand with human sera of ciguatera convalescent. These various antibodies have been recognized by peroxydase labelled anti-rabbit, -mouse and -human antibodies. It has been not possible to show off specific antibodies of the ciguatoxin in the various immune sera tested by this immuno-enzymatic method.

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