Effect of ozonation on the removal of cyanobacterial toxins during drinking water treatment

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 110, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1127-1132

  Hoeger, Stefan J ^a   Dietrich, Daniel R ^a   Hitzfeld, Bettina C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cyanobacteria; Microcystin; Microcystis aeruginosa; Ozonation; Planktothrix rubescens; TOC; Total organic carbon

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN; CARBON; CYANOGINOSIN; DRINKING WATER; NITRILE; OZONE; PHOSPHATASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL OVERGROWTH; BACTERIOLYSIS; BATCH REACTOR; CELL COUNT; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; ENZYME INHIBITION; FILTRATION; FOOD SAFETY; MICROCYSTIS AERUGINOSA; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION POTENTIAL; OZONATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; TOXIN ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER TREATMENT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; MICROCYSTIS; MICROCYSTIS AERUGINOSA; PLANKTOTHRIX; PLANKTOTHRIX RUBESCENS;

EID: 0036851414     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.021101127     Document Type: Article

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