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General Information

Event name: IND-68-001
Country: INDIA
Nature of the harmful event:
 Water Discoloration , High Phyto concentration
Event directly affected:
 Humans
Toxicity detected: No
Associated syndrome:
Unexplained toxicity:
Species implicated in toxin transmission (transvector):
Report the outcome of a monitoring programme: No
Event occurred before in this location:
Individuals to contact: QUOD, Jean-Pascal , SCHWEIBOLD Laura

Location & Date

Location: Latitude: , Longitude:
General location information: Laccadives, Laccadives
HAB Area code(s): IN-04
Additional location information:
Bloom event dates (yyyy/mm/dd): Event Date:1968-04-01
Quarantine levels dates (yyyy/mm/dd):
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Microalgae

Causative organism known: Yes
Causative Species/Genus: Trichodesmium erythraeum (Ehrenberg) Gomont 1892 ( cells/L)
Co-Ocurring Species/Genus:
Chlorophyll concentration, if known: µg/l
Additional bloom information:
Event-related bibliography: Qasim, S. Z. (1970, June). Some characteristics of a Trichodesmium bloom in the Laccadives. In Deep Sea Research and Oceanographic Abstracts (Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 655-660). Elsevier.

Environmental Conditions

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Toxin Assay Information

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Created at 04:41 on 6 Nov 2020
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