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Bad Bug Book: Various Shellfish-Associated Toxins - Caused by consuming shellfish that have accumulated dinoflagellate toxins. Features cause, symptoms, associated foods, and outbreaks.
DBMD - Marine Toxins - Discusses the causes, symptoms, and prevention of several toxins carried by fish and shellfish.
Ricin Toxin from the Castor Bean Plant - Scientific and medical article on the toxin and its effects.
Poisonous Mushrooms - Description of toxic species and the symptoms their toxins produce.
Pesticides, Metals, Chemical Contaminants and Natural Toxins - Program area the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) with links to information about these toxins.
Guide de la toxine botulique - Présente des informations sur la toxine botulique : utilisations, effets secondaires.
Bad Bug Book: Mushroom Toxins - Includes toxic substances and their effects, symptoms, diagnosis, descriptions of some poisonous mushrooms, and outbreaks.
Natural Toxins Research Center - Games, coloring, and comic book about the toxins found in snakes.
Bad Bug Book: Ciguatera Fish Poisoning - Caused by the consumption of subtropical and tropical marine finfish which have accumulated naturally occurring dinoflagellate toxins through their diet. Includes cause, associated fish, symptoms, and outbreaks.
Food Safety Research Information Office: Ciguatoxin - Directory of factsheets, reports, press releases, and resources on the toxin.

List of fictional toxins - This is a list of toxins, poisons and chemical weapons from works of fiction (usually in fantasy and science fiction). The toxins are divided into three alphabetical groups: Fictional Poisons, Fictional Chemical Weapons and Fictional Mutagens.
Uremic toxins - Numerous uremic toxins (see link) are accumulating in chronic renal failure patients treated with standard dialysis. These toxins show various cytotoxic activities in the serum, have different molecular weights and some of them are bound to other proteins, primarily to albumin.
Coley's Toxins - Coley's Toxins (also called Coley's toxin, Coley's vaccine, Coley vaccine or Mixed Bacterial Vaccine) is a mixture consisting of killed bacteria of species Streptococcus pyogenes as well as Serratia marcescens, named after Dr. William Coley, who discovered Coley's Toxins.
Pore forming toxins - Pore forming toxins (PFTs) are protein toxins, typically, (but not exclusively) produced by bacteria, such as C.perfringens and S.
Shiga toxin - Shiga toxins are a family of related toxins with two major groups, Stx1 and Stx2, whose genes are considered to be part of the genome of lambdoid prophages. The toxins are named for Kiyoshi Shiga, who first described the bacterial origin of dysentery caused by Shigella dysenteriae.