Calothrix confervicola Agardh ex Bornet et Flahault (Cyanoprokaryota) - a new possible causative agent of seeweed dermatitis?

Абстракт

The present paper is intended to serve as alarm in order to sharpen the attention of scientists to the benthic heterocytous cyanoprokaryote Calothrix confervicola, which seems  to be the most probable potential causative agent for a human skin irritation (seewed dermatitis, or swimmer’s itch), detected recently in one site on the southern Black Sea coast of Bulgaria. 

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