Pfiesteria: Review of the science and identification of research gaps. Report for the national cancer for environmental health, centers for disease control and prevention

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 109, Issue SUPPL. 5, 2001, Pages 639-659

  Samet, Jonathan ^a   Bignami, Gary S ^b   Feldman, Robert ^c   Hawkins, William ^d   Neff, Jerry ^e   Smayda, Theodore ^f   Black, R ^e  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b QUEEN S MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^e BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Dinoflagellate organism; Ecophysiology of Pfiesteria; Epidemiology; Fish kills; Fish pathology and toxicology; Henle Koch postulates; Ichthyotoxins; Literature review; Neurological effects; State of the science

Indexed keywords

TOXIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DINOFLAGELLATE; DISEASE CONTROL; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; ESTUARY; FEMALE; FISH DISEASE; HUMAN; INVERTEBRATE; LABORATORY TEST; LIFE CYCLE; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NEUROLOGY; NEUROTOXICOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEER REVIEW; PFIESTERIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCIENCE; TOXICITY; TOXICOLOGY; ANIMAL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FISH; FOOD CHAIN; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW;

ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FISHES; FOOD CHAIN; HUMAN; INVERTEBRATES; PFIESTERIA PISCICIDA; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS; PUBLIC HEALTH; REPRODUCTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOXINS;

EID: 0035163530     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.01109s5639     Document Type: Article

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