Stefano Accoroni, Monica Cangini, Roberto Angeletti, Carmen Losasso, Simone Bacchiocchi, Antonella Costa, Aurelia Di Taranto, Laura Escalera, Giorgio Fedrizzi, Angela Garzia, Francesca Longo, Andrea Macaluso, Nunzia Melchiorre, Anna Milandri, Stefania Milandri, Marina Montresor, Francesca Neri, Arianna Piersanti, Silva Rubini, Chiara Suraci, Francesca Susini, Maria Rosaria Vadrucci, Alessandro Graziano Mudadu, Barbara Vivaldi, Barbara Soro, Cecilia Totti, Adriana Zingone
Along the Italian coasts, toxins of algal origin in wild and cultivated shellfish have been reported since the 1970s. In this study, we used data gathered by the Veterinary Public Health Institutes (IZS) and the Italian Environmental Health Protection Agencies (ARPA) from 2006 to 2019 to investigate toxicity events along the Italian coasts and relate them to the distribution of potentially toxic species. Among the detected toxins (OA and analogs, YTXs, PTXs, STXs, DAs, AZAs), OA and YTX were those most frequently reported...
January 2024: Harmful Algae