Okadaic acid as the causative toxin of diarrhetic shellfish poisoning in Europe.

Masanori Kumagai, Toshihiko Yanagi, Michio Murata, Takeshi Yasumoto, Marie Kat, Patrick Lassus, J.A. Rodríguez-Vázquez

Agricultural and Biological Chemistry · 1986 · 134 citations · 2 references

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The toxic principle in mussels collected in France, Sweden, the Netherlands, and Spain that caused diarrhetic shellfish poisoning was identified to be okadaic acid by its chromatographic properties and spectral data.

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