Learning and memory difficulties after environmental exposure to waterways containing toxin-producing Pfiesteria or Pfiesteria-like dinoflagellates

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Volumn 352, Issue 9127, 1998, Pages 532-539

  Grattan, Lynn M ^a   Oldach, David ^a   Perl, Trish M ^b   Lowitt, Mark H ^a   Matuszak, Diane L ^c   Dickson, Curtis ^d   Parrott, Colleen ^d   Shoemaker, Ritchie C ^c   Kauffman, C Lisa ^a   Wasserman, Martin P ^c   Hebel, J Richard ^a   Charache, Patricia ^b   Morris Jr , J Glenn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Dept of Health and Mental Hygiene ^*

^d Somerset County Health Department   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TOXIN;

ADULT; AGED; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DINOFLAGELLATE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; SKIN DEFECT; UNITED STATES; WATER POLLUTION;

PFIESTERIA; PFIESTERIA PISCICIDA;

EID: 0032529725     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(98)02132-1     Document Type: Article

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