The standardized fish bioassay procedure for detecting and culturing actively toxic Pfiesteria, used by two reference laboratories for atlantic and gulf coast states

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 109, Issue SUPPL. 5, 2001, Pages 745-756

  Burkholder, JoAnn M ^a   Marshall, Harold G ^b   Glasgow, Howard B ^a   Seaborn, David W ^b   Deamer Melia, Nora J ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Culture; Dinoflagellates; Functional type; Standardized fish bioassay; Toxic Pfiesteria complex

Indexed keywords

ALGA; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; CLONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESTUARY; EXPERIENCE; FISH; INFECTION; LABORATORY; LIGHT; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NONHUMAN; PFIESTERIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLISHING; QUALITY CONTROL; SALINITY; SEDIMENT; STANDARDIZATION; TEMPERATURE; UNITED STATES; WATER SAMPLING; ANIMAL; FISH DISEASE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; REFERENCE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; STANDARD;

TOXIN;

ALGAE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISH DISEASES; FISHES; LABORATORIES; PFIESTERIA PISCICIDA; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TOXINS;

EID: 0035159352     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.01109s5745     Document Type: Article

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