Determination of Trace Atrazine Levels in Water by a Sensitive Magnetic Particle-Based Enzyme Immunoassay

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Volumn 44, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 3576-3581

  Hottenstein, Charles S ^a   Rubio, Fernando M ^a   Herzog, David P ^a   Fleeker, James R ^b   Lawruk, Timothy S ^a  

^a Ohmicron Environmental Diagnostics   (United States)

^b NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrazine; ELISA; Herbicide; Immunoassay; Triazine

Indexed keywords

POACEAE;

EID: 0000018655     PISSN: 00218561     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jf950737l     Document Type: Article

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