Rapid screening and multi-toxin profile confirmation of tetrodotoxins and analogues in human body fluids derived from a puffer fish poisoning incident in New Caledonia
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Rambla-Alegre, Maria
Leonardo, Sandra
Barguil, Yann
Flores, Cintia
Caixach, Josep
Campbell, Katrina
Elliott, Christopher T.
Maillaud, Claude
Boundy, Michael J.
Harwood, D. Tim
Fecha de publicación
2017-12-30ISSN
0278-6915
Resumen
In August 2014, a puffer fish poisoning incidence resulting in one fatality was reported in New Caledonia. Although tetrodotoxin (TTX) intoxication was established from the patients' signs and symptoms, the determination of TTX in the patient's urine, serum or plasma is essential to confirm the clinical diagnosis. To provide a simple cost-effective rapid screening tool for clinical analysis, a maleimide-based enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (mELISA) adapted for the determination of TTX contents in human body fluids was assessed. The mELISA was applied to the analysis of urine samples from two patients and a response for the presence of TTX and/or structurally similar analogues was detected in all samples. The analysis by LC-MS/MS confirmed the presence of TTX but also TTX analogues (4-epiTTX, 4,9-anhydroTTX and 5,6,11-trideoxyTTX) in the urine. A change in the multi-toxin profile in the urine based on time following consumption was observed. LC-MS/MS analysis of serum and plasma samples also revealed the presence of TTX (32.9 ng/mL) and 5,6,11-trideoxyTTX (374.6 ng/mL) in the post-mortem plasma. The results provide for the first time the TTX multi-toxin profile of human samples from a puffer fish intoxication and clearly demonstrate the implication of TTX as the causative agent of the reported intoxication case.
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574 - Ecologia general i biodiversitat
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24
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Elsevier
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Food and Chemical Toxicology
Citación
Rambla-Alegre, Maria, Sandra Leonardo, Yann Barguil, Cintia Flores, Josep Caixach, Katrina Campbell, and Christopher T. Elliott et al. 2018. "Rapid Screening And Multi-Toxin Profile Confirmation Of Tetrodotoxins And Analogues In Human Body Fluids Derived From A Puffer Fish Poisoning Incident In New Caledonia". Food And Chemical Toxicology 112: 188-193. Elsevier BV. doi:10.1016/j.fct.2017.12.039.
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INIA/Programa Estatal de Promoción de Talento y su Empleabilidad en I+D+I/RTA2013-00096-00-00/ES/Promoción de una acuicultura de bivalvos y pesqueria sostenible y segura mediante modelizacióin y caracterización del riesgo de toxinas emergentes/PROMAQUA
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Aigües Marines i Continentals
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