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Ciguatera

Food poisoning resulting from the consumption of tropical reef-dwelling fish that have become toxic by feeding directly or indirectly on species of toxic dinoflagellates, microscopic marine organisms. The dinoflagellates live on coral reefs attached to algae.

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