Human intoxication by microcystins during renal dialysis treatment in Caruaru - Brazil

Toxicology

Volumn 181-182, Issue , 2002, Pages 441-446

  Azevedo, Sandra M F O ^a   Carmichael, Wayne W ^b   Jochimsen, Elise M ^c   Rinehart, Kenneth L ^d   Lau, Sharon ^d   Shaw, Glen R ^e   Eaglesham, Geoff K ^e  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^e NONE

Author keywords

Cyanobacteria; Cylindrospermopsin; Human health; Microcystins

Indexed keywords

CYANOGINOSIN; CYLINDROSPERMOPSIN; DRINKING WATER;

ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CARUARU SYNDROME; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; DEATH; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HUMAN; INTOXICATION; LIVER; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TOXICITY; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NAUSEA; NONHUMAN; PATHOLOGY; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; SYNDROME; VISUAL DISORDER; VOMITING; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY; WATER TREATMENT;

ANIMALS; BRAZIL; CARCINOGENS; EUTROPHICATION; HEPATITIS, TOXIC; HUMANS; LIVER; MICROCYSTINS; PEPTIDES, CYCLIC; PHYTOPLANKTON; RATS; RENAL DIALYSIS; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER SUPPLY;

ANIMALIA; CYANOBACTERIA;

EID: 0037184812     PISSN: 0300483X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0300-483X(02)00491-2     Document Type: Article

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