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Case Reports
. 2017 Jan 9;189(1):E19-E21.
doi: 10.1503/cmaj.151207. Epub 2016 May 9.

Ciguatera fish poisoning after Caribbean travel

Courtney A Thompson  1 , Farah Jazuli  1 , Linda R Taggart  1 , Andrea K Boggild  2
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Case Reports

Ciguatera fish poisoning after Caribbean travel

Courtney A Thompson et al. CMAJ. .
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Figure 1:
Figure 1:
Dog snapper eaten by a 39-year-old man while in Cuba (case 1).
Figure 2:
Figure 2:
Global distribution of ciguatera fish poisoning (CFP). Reproduced with permission from the US National Office for Harmful Algal Blooms, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Mass.
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