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THE tropical fish poisoning known as ‘ciguatera’, which is clearly different from the well-documented tetraodon poisoning, has long been known in the Pacific. Its narrow regional appearance and its variability within a given species of marine fish have been puzzling phenomena. The symptoms associated with ciguatera have been well described, but fundamental knowledge of the toxin is virtually non-existent. The present state of this problem has recently been reviewed by Randall1.
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BANNER, A., SASAKI, S., HELFRICH, P. et al. Bioassay of Ciguatera Toxin. Nature 189, 229–230 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1038/189229a0
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