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Harmful Algae. 2011 Jan 01;10(2):224-233. doi: 10.1016/j.hal.2010.08.006.

Review of Florida Red Tide and Human Health Effects.

Harmful algae

Lora E Fleming, Barbara Kirkpatrick, Lorraine C Backer, Cathy J Walsh, Kate Nierenberg, John Clark, Andrew Reich, Julie Hollenbeck, Janet Benson, Yung Sung Cheng, Jerome Naar, Richard Pierce, Andrea J Bourdelais, William M Abraham, Gary Kirkpatrick, Julia Zaias, Adam Wanner, Eliana Mendes, Stuart Shalat, Porter Hoagland, Wendy Stephan, Judy Bean, Sharon Watkins, Tainya Clarke, Margaret Byrne, Daniel G Baden

Affiliations

  1. NSF NIEHS Oceans and Human Health Center, University of Miami, 4600 Rickenbacker Causeway, Miami, FL, 33149.

PMID: 21218152 PMCID: PMC3014608 DOI: 10.1016/j.hal.2010.08.006

Abstract

This paper reviews the literature describing research performed over the past decade on the known and possible exposures and human health effects associated with Florida red tides. These harmful algal blooms are caused by the dinoflagellate, Karenia brevis, and similar organisms, all of which produce a suite of natural toxins known as brevetoxins. Florida red tide research has benefited from a consistently funded, long term research program, that has allowed an interdisciplinary team of researchers to focus their attention on this specific environmental issue-one that is critically important to Gulf of Mexico and other coastal communities. This long-term interdisciplinary approach has allowed the team to engage the local community, identify measures to protect public health, take emerging technologies into the field, forge advances in natural products chemistry, and develop a valuable pharmaceutical product. The Review includes a brief discussion of the Florida red tide organisms and their toxins, and then focuses on the effects of these toxins on animals and humans, including how these effects predict what we might expect to see in exposed people.

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