As a part of this effort the research program ARISTOCYA,
funded by the French National Research Agency, was
recently implemented with the objective to assess the
health risk associated with human exposure to marine
benthic cyanobacterial blooms. Because of objective difficulties
to distinguish between toxic and non-toxic cyanobacteria,
the analyses require a ‘‘polyphasic’’ approach
targeting particular populations and strains by applying
combined traditional and molecular tools.