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Poisoning caused by ingesting fish contaminated with ciguatoxin, characterized by gastrointestinal and neurological symptoms.

[American Spanish, from ciguato, one poisoned (with ciguatoxin), from cigua, sigua, snail, perhaps of Arawakan origin.]

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ciguatoxin			The causative toxins of its clinical manifestations are ciguatoxins (7). Ciguatera fish poisoning, Canary Islands by Boada, Luis D. / Emerging Infectious Diseases This information on the association of brevetoxins with HDLs provides a new foundation for understanding the process by which the toxin is delivered to and removed from tissues and may permit more effective therapeutic measures to treat intoxication from brevetoxins and the related ciguatoxins. Distribution of brevetoxin (PbTx-3) in mouse plasma: association with ... by Ramsdell, John S. / Environmental Health Perspectives Researchers at the University of Hawaii are studying another warm-water dinoflagellate (Gambierdiscus toxicus) that produces the ciguatoxins that cause ciguatera fish poisoning. New Centers for Oceans and Human Health by Freeman, Kris / Environmental Health Perspectives			cigar lighter cigar smoker cigar-box cedar cigar-shaped cigar-store Indian cigaret cigarette cigarette burn cigarette butt cigarette card cigarette cards cigarette case cigarette end cigarette holder cigarette lighter cigarette paper cigarette smoker cigarfish cigarillo ciggie ciggy cigrinophily CIGS ciguatera ciguatoxin Ciguatoxins cilantro cilia cilial ciliary ciliary artery ciliary body ciliary veins Ciliata ciliate ciliated ciliated protozoan cilice Cilicia Cilician Cilician Gates Cilicious Cilicism Ciliform Cilioflagellata Ciliograde ciliolate Ciliophora ciliophoran cilium cill			CIGNM CIGO CIGOS CIGP CIGPE CIGR CIGRE Cigref cigrinophily CIGRR CIGS CIGS CIGSA CIGSS CIGSS Acquisition Standards Handbook CIGSS Standards Working Group CIGSYA CIGT CIGTF CIGTS ciguatera ciguatera ciguatera Ciguatera fish poisoning Ciguatera fish poisoning Ciguatera poisoning Ciguatera poisoning ciguatoxin ciguatoxin ciguatoxin Ciguatoxins CIGUD CIGV Cih CIHA CIHAD CIHAGM CIHAM CIHAN CIHB CIHC CIHCP CIHCS CIHD CIHDR CIHE CIHEAM CIHEC CIHEF CIHEN CIHEP CIHFI CIHFS CIHG CIHH

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