Investigating potential associations between chronic exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls and infectious disease mortality in harbour porpoises from England and Wales

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 243-244, Issue , 1999, Pages 339-348

  Jepson, Paul D ^a   Bennett, Peter M ^a   Allchin, Colin R ^b   Law, Robin J ^b   Kuiken, Thijs ^a,e   Baker, John R ^c,f   Rogan, Emer ^d   Kirkwood, James K ^a,g  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND   (Canada)

^f The Dormie   (United Kingdom)

^g Universities Fed for Animal Welfare   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Harbour porpoise; Immunosuppression; Infectious disease mortality; Organochlorines; PCBs; Phocoena phocoena; Pollution; Polychlorinated biphenyls

Indexed keywords

HEAVY METAL; ORGANOCHLORINE DERIVATIVE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

INFECTIOUS DISEASE; MORTALITY; PCB; POLLUTION EXPOSURE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; INFECTION; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; POLLUTION; PORPOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOXICOKINETICS; UNITED KINGDOM;

ENGLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WALES;

EID: 0032787491     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0048-9697(99)00417-9     Document Type: Article

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