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Volume 11, Number 12—December 2005
Letter

Ciguatera Fish Poisoning, Canary Islands

Jose-Luis Pérez-Arellano*†Comments to Author , Octavio P. Luzardo*, Ana Pérez Brito‡, Michele Hernández Cabrera*†, Manuel Zumbado*, Cristina Carranza*†, Alfonso Angel-Moreno*†, Robert W. Dickey§, and Luis D. Boada*
Author affiliations: *University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain; †Hospital Universitario Insular de Gran Canaria (Canary Health Service), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain; ‡Hospital de Fuerteventura, Puerto del Rosario, Spain; §Gulf Coast Seafood Laboratory (Food and Drug Administration), Dauphin Island, Alabama, USA

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Worldwide distribution of ciguatera. Gray indicates coral reef regions located between 35° north and 35° south latitudes; brown indicates disease-endemic areas of ciguatera; red circle indicates Canary Islands (latitude 28°06´ north, longitude 15°24´ west. Source: refs 4. and 5.

Figure. Worldwide distribution of ciguatera. Gray indicates coral reef regions located between 35° north and 35° south latitudes; brown indicates disease-endemic areas of ciguatera; red circle indicates Canary Islands (latitude 28°06´ north, longitude 15°24´ west. Source: refs 4. and 5.

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