Citation

Neves CK, Goldani LZ. Braz. J. Infect. Dis. 2019; 23(3): 200-202.

Affiliation

Infectious Diseases Section, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Electronic address: lgoldani@ufrgs.br.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, Brazilian Society of Infectious Diseases, Publisher Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.bjid.2019.06.004

PMID

31301279

Abstract

Ciguatera poisoning is the most common form of non-bacterial food-poisoning from fish worldwide. The incidence among Brazilians returning from high-risk regions is unclear because it is not a mandatory reportable disease. We describe a previously healthy 53-year-old Brazilian woman developed Ciguatera fish poisoning while traveling to Havana, Cuba. Physicians and health care professionals should advise travelers to avoid eating ciguatoxic fish species and potentially toxic fish species in the Caribbean islands. Despite the prognosis for most cases is good with a short duration of self-limited symptoms, early recognition of the identifying clinical features of ciguatera can result in improved patient care.

Copyright © 2019. Published by Elsevier España, S.L.U.

Language: en

Keywords

Brazilian traveler; Caribbean; Ciguatera; Fish poisoning