title: [The man and the sea: marine phytoplancton and public health].
abstract: The progressive, world-wide emergence of the natural phenomenon "red tide" normally ignored because of the exceptionality or exotic nature of its sanitary and medical formation, is a risk already present in Spain and Europe, with a certain repetition and under some of the ethiological and clinical forms which were previously unknown to us. Today under the conventional denomination of "Harmful Algae Blooms" (HABs) they have given rise to an extensive investigation, to much bibliography and an almost universal sanitary legislation, as well as a preventive preoccupation of the some states which have become aware that this is a potential and practically unavoidable risk. In this work the basic facts of HABs, their eco-epidemiology and the knowledge of toxic syndroms produced by the marine phytoplancton, represented by some Dinoflagellates and Diatomeas, and Cyanobacteria, are reviewed.
authors.affiliation: Real Academia de Medicina y Cirugía de Cádiz.
authors.forename: José
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Mira Gutiérrez
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002265:Carboxylic Ester Hydrolases / Q000506:poisoning; D036841:Ciguatera Poisoning / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008387:Marine Toxins / Q000506:poisoning; D008978:Mollusk Venoms / Q000506:poisoning; D020045:Pfiesteria piscicida; D010839:Phytoplankton; D011528:Protozoan Infections; D011634:Public Health
chemical_list: D008387:Marine Toxins; D008978:Mollusk Venoms; D002265:Carboxylic Ester Hydrolases; C092629:paralytic shellfish poisoning toxin carbamoylase