Are Streptomyces bacteria involved in the ciguatoxicity of the surgeon fish Ctenochaetus striatus?
Several Streptomyces strains have been isolated from the digestive tract of the herbivorous fish C. striatus, a preeminent ciguateric fish of Polynesian waters. In order to study the possible role played by these bacteria in the toxicity of this fish, the quantitative and qualitative distributions of these isolates within toxic and non toxic fish are compared. The preliminary results are discussed.
Institut Territorial de Recherches Médicales Louis Malardé, Papeete, Tahiti, French Polynesia.
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D000818:Animals; D001681:Biological Assay; D002922:Ciguatoxins / Q000633:toxicity*; D009033:Culicidae; D005399:Fishes / Q000382:microbiology*; D011114:Polynesia; D013302:Streptomyces / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000502:physiology*
D002922:Ciguatoxins