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A human neurological disease caused by the ingestion of toxic marine shellfish (filter-feeding bivalves) as well as other harvested seafood. PSP has been reported from cold and warm seas (Steidinger 1993). Shellfish can accumulate and store large quantities of bloom or red tide dinoflagellate toxins without apparent harm to themselves (Steidinger & Baden 1984). ...
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| paralytic shellfish poisoning |
Nervous system effects caused by toxins produced by certain groups of single celled organisms, primarily dinoflagellates.
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| paralytic shellfish poisoning |
(PSP): A disease with severe neurological effects, including paralysis and death, caused by eating shellfish that contain the marine biotoxin saxitoxin. (see biotoxins)
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