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When numbers of tl organism are sufficient tht produce a neurotoxin that di orients and eventually kills tl fish and they then release second toxin that breaks dow the mucus layer of the fish ar the skin sloughs off. Pfiester then feeds on the tissue ar blood.

At a workshop given t Burkholder, she asked for a vo unteer to donate a drop of bloc for a demonstration. Lacoutui said she put the blood on a slid with Pfiesteria and the watched it on an electro microscope as it sucked up th blood cells. Burkholder tested number of different kinds < fish and four different kinds < shellfish with Pfiester. It indii criminately killed them all.

Making it even more coir plicated, Pfiesteria has an ext toxin that is released into th water which attacks fish an shellfish and an endotoxin tha is stored by mussels when the

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