Anaerobic biotransformations of organochlorine pesticides in Manzala Lake, Egypt

Toxicological and Environmental Chemistry

Volumn 62, Issue 1-4, 1997, Pages 149-160

  Susarla, Sridhar ^a   El Hefnawy, Mohamed M ^b   Masunaga, Shigeki ^c   Yamashita, Nobuyoshi ^a   Yonezawa, Yoshitaka ^a   Salem Rizk, Mohamed M ^b   Urushigawa, Yoshikuni ^d  

^a NATL INST FOR RSRC AND ENVIRON   (Japan)

^b MANSOURA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Industrial Research Center of Ehime Prefecture   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anaerobic; Biotransformations; Kinetics; Metabolites; Pesticides; Sediment

Indexed keywords

DEGRADATION; LAKES; METABOLITES; REACTION KINETICS; SLURRIES;

ANAEROBIC BIOTRANSFORMATIONS; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDES;

PESTICIDES;

EID: 0030722888     PISSN: 02772248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02772249709358504     Document Type: Article

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