Chronic toxicity evaluation of wastewater treatment plant effluents with bioluminescent bacteria: A comparison with invertebrates and fish

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 2187-2189

  Sweet, Leonard I ^a   Travers, David F ^a   Meier, Peter G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomonitoring; Effluent; Toxicity; Wastewater treatment plant effluents

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; BIOLUMINESCENCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EFFLUENT; FISH; INVERTEBRATE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOXICITY TESTING; WASTE WATER; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT;

EID: 0030803139     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/1551-5028(1997)016<2187:SCCTEO>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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