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Article

Ovatoxin-a and Palytoxin Accumulation in Seafood in Relation to Ostreopsis cf. ovata Blooms on the French Mediterranean Coast

by
Zouher Amzil
1,*,
Manoella Sibat
1,
Nicolas Chomerat
2,
Hubert Grossel
3,
Francoise Marco-Miralles
3,
Rodolphe Lemee
4,5,
Elisabeth Nezan
2 and
Veronique Sechet
1
1
IFREMER, Phycotoxins Laboratory, BP 21105, F-44311 Nantes Cedex 3, France
2
IFREMER, LER-FBN, Marine Biological Station, BP 40537, F-29185 Concarneau Cedex, France
3
IFREMER, LER-PAC, La Seyne sur Mer, F-83507, Toulon, France
4
Oceanography Laboratory of Villefranche, Pierre et Marie Curie University, BP 28, F-06234, Villefranche-sur-Mer cedex, France
5
CNRS, Marine Microbilal Ecology and Biogeochemistry, Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6 University, BP 28, F-06234, Villefranche-sur-Mer, France
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Mar. Drugs 2012, 10(2), 477-496; https://doi.org/10.3390/md10020477
Submission received: 8 December 2011 / Revised: 6 February 2012 / Accepted: 8 February 2012 / Published: 17 February 2012
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Abstract

Dinoflagellates of the genus Ostreopsis are known to cause (often fatal) food poisoning in tropical coastal areas following the accumulation of palytoxin (PLTX) and/or its analogues (PLTX group) in crabs, sea urchins or fish. Ostreopsis spp. occurrence is presently increasing in the northern to north western Mediterranean Sea (Italy, Spain, Greece and France), probably in response to climate change. In France, Ostreopsis. cf. ovata has been associated with toxic events during summer 2006, at Morgiret, off the coast of Marseille, and a specific monitoring has been designed and implemented since 2007. Results from 2008 and 2009 showed that there is a real danger of human poisoning, as these demonstrated bioaccumulation of the PLTX group (PLTX and ovatoxin-a) in both filter-feeding bivalve molluscs (mussels) and herbivorous echinoderms (sea urchins). The total content accumulated in urchins reached 450 µg PLTX eq/kg total flesh (summer 2008). In mussels, the maximum was 230 µg eq PLTX/kg (summer 2009) compared with a maximum of 360 µg found in sea urchins during the same period at the same site. This publication brings together scientific knowledge obtained about the summer development of Ostreopsis spp. in France during 2007, 2008 and 2009.
Keywords: Ostreopsis cf. ovata; palytoxin; ovatoxin-a; LC-MS/MS; seafood Ostreopsis cf. ovata; palytoxin; ovatoxin-a; LC-MS/MS; seafood

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Amzil, Z.; Sibat, M.; Chomerat, N.; Grossel, H.; Marco-Miralles, F.; Lemee, R.; Nezan, E.; Sechet, V. Ovatoxin-a and Palytoxin Accumulation in Seafood in Relation to Ostreopsis cf. ovata Blooms on the French Mediterranean Coast. Mar. Drugs 2012, 10, 477-496. https://doi.org/10.3390/md10020477

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Amzil Z, Sibat M, Chomerat N, Grossel H, Marco-Miralles F, Lemee R, Nezan E, Sechet V. Ovatoxin-a and Palytoxin Accumulation in Seafood in Relation to Ostreopsis cf. ovata Blooms on the French Mediterranean Coast. Marine Drugs. 2012; 10(2):477-496. https://doi.org/10.3390/md10020477

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Amzil, Zouher, Manoella Sibat, Nicolas Chomerat, Hubert Grossel, Francoise Marco-Miralles, Rodolphe Lemee, Elisabeth Nezan, and Veronique Sechet. 2012. "Ovatoxin-a and Palytoxin Accumulation in Seafood in Relation to Ostreopsis cf. ovata Blooms on the French Mediterranean Coast" Marine Drugs 10, no. 2: 477-496. https://doi.org/10.3390/md10020477

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Amzil, Z., Sibat, M., Chomerat, N., Grossel, H., Marco-Miralles, F., Lemee, R., Nezan, E., & Sechet, V. (2012). Ovatoxin-a and Palytoxin Accumulation in Seafood in Relation to Ostreopsis cf. ovata Blooms on the French Mediterranean Coast. Marine Drugs, 10(2), 477-496. https://doi.org/10.3390/md10020477

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