Title: diarrheal shellfish poisoning
Long Title: IUPAC Gold Book - diarrheal shellfish poisoning
DOI: 10.1351/goldbook.11715
Status: current

Definition
Serious illness characterized primarily by diarrhea with rapid onset and resolution after \(\pu{24 h}\) that is a consequence of consumption of bivalve shellfish (mollusks) such as mussels, oysters, and clams that have ingested, by filter feeding, large quantities of dinoflagellates containing a group of high-molecular-weight structures with multiple ether linkages, such as okadaic acid, dinophysis toxins, pectenotoxins, and yessotoxin.

Source
- PAC, 2015, 87, 841. 'IUPAC Glossary of terms used in neurotoxicology (IUPAC Recommendations 2015)' on page 861 (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2015-0103)

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Citation: Citation: 'diarrheal shellfish poisoning' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.11715
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