A tetrodotoxin-producing marine pathogen

Kim B. Ritchie, Ivan Nagelkerken, Sara James and Garriet W. Smith ()
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Kim B. Ritchie: University of North Carolina
Ivan Nagelkerken: Carmabi Foundation
Sara James: Clemson University
Garriet W. Smith: University of South Carolina

Nature, 2000, vol. 404, issue 6776, 354-354

Abstract: Abstract Disease-related mortalities of sea urchin populations have occurred globally over the past 20 years, although the causative agents have rarely been identified1. We have discovered a potent new marine pathogen that caused a sudden die-off of the sea urchin Meoma ventricosa in Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles, in January of 1997 (ref. 2), and which also has implications for human health. This turns out to be a neurotoxin-producing bacterium that is closely related to the deadly Pseudoalteromonas haloplanktis tetraodonis, which is responsible for numerous deaths each year in Japan resulting from the consumption of pufferfish3,4,5.

Date: 2000
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