Diarrhetic Shellfish Poisoning, Washington, USA, 2011

Abstract

Diarrhetic shellfish poisoning is a gastrointestinal illness caused by consumption of bivalves contaminated with dinophysistoxins. We report an illness cluster in the United States in which toxins were confirmed in shellfish from a commercial harvest area, leading to product recall. Ongoing surveillance is needed to prevent similar illness outbreaks.

Keywords

• Diarrhetic shellfish poisoning
• shellfish
• toxins
• DSP
• dinophysistoxins
• marine biotoxins