Open AccessOstreopsis ovata and human health: epidemiological and clinical features of respiratory syndrome outbreaks from a two-year syndromic surveillance, 2005-06, in north-west Italy
Author(s) -
Paolo Durando,
Filippo Ansaldi,
P Oreste,
P Moscatelli,
L Marensi,
Claudio Grillo,
Roberto Gasparini,
Giancarlo Icardi
Publication year - 2007
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 9999-1233
DOI - 10.2807/esw.12.23.03212-en
Subject(s) - outbreak , dinoflagellate , epidemiology , subtropics , mediterranean climate , mediterranean sea , human health , geography , environmental health , medicine , biology , ecology , virology , pathology
There appears to be a lack of data regarding the effects on human health of Ostreopsis ovata, a marine dinoflagellate species usually living in tropical and subtropical areas but recently found with more and more frequency in the Mediterranean Sea.