Publications by authors named "Keisuke Shibano"
Article Synopsis
- Fatal food poisonings from pufferfish in Cambodia have been ongoing for decades, with no previous documentation of the toxins or species involved.
- Researchers studied three pufferfish species from the coastal waters of Sihanouk Ville, finding that two species, L. wheeleri and L. spadiceus, were non-toxic, while L. lunaris was toxic with elevated toxicity levels in all body tissues.
- Tetrodotoxin (TTX) was identified as the primary toxin in L. lunaris, confirming it as a dangerous source of TTX and likely responsible for past poisonings in Cambodia.