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Volume 11, Number 12, December 2005

Ciguatera Fish Poisoning, Canary Islands

Jose-Luis Pérez-Arellano,*† Octavio P. Luzardo,* Ana Pérez Brito,‡ Michele Hernández Cabrera,*† Manuel Zumbado,* Cristina Carranza,*† Alfonso Angel-Moreno,*† Robert W. Dickey,§ and Luis D. Boada*
*University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain; †Hospital Universitario Insular de Gran Canaria (Canary Health Service), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain; ‡Hospital de Fuerteventura, Puerto del Rosario, Spain; and §Gulf Coast Seafood Laboratory (Food and Drug Administration), Dauphin Island, Alabama, USA

 
 
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Figure. Worldwide distribution of ciguatera. Gray indicates coral reef regions located between 35° north and 35° south latitudes; brown indicates disease-endemic areas of ciguatera; red circle indicates Canary Islands (latitude 28°06´ north, longitude 15°24´ west. Source: refs. 4 and 5.

 

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