title: [A new pathophysiological explanation of ciguaterra (author's transl)].
abstract: 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.
mesh_terms: D036841:Ciguatera Poisoning; D004141:Dinoflagellida; D006801:Humans; D008387:Marine Toxins / Q000506:poisoning*; D012530:Saxitoxin / Q000506:poisoning; D057096:Shellfish Poisoning
chemical_list: D008387:Marine Toxins; D012530:Saxitoxin
vernacular_title: Nouvelle explication physiopathologique de la ciguatera.