Health effects of toxin-producing cyanobacteria: "The CyanoHABs"

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment (HERA)

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 1393-1407

  Carmichael, Wayne W ^a  

^a WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Blue green algae; Cyanotoxins; Cynaobacteria; Risk; Toxins

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037580415     PISSN: 10807039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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