Assessing sediment toxicity and arsenite concentration with bacterial and traditional methods

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 407-415

  Petanen T ^d   Lyytikainen M ^a   Lappalainen, J ^b   Romantschuk, M ^c   Kukkonen, J V K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b Aboatox Oy   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Bioavailability; Chironomids; Heavy metals; Luminescence; Pseudomonas

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC COMPOUNDS; BACTERIA; BIOSENSORS; SEDIMENTS;

BIOAVAILABLE FRACTIONS;

TOXICITY;

ARSENIC; ARSENIC TRIOXIDE;

ARSENITE; ASSESSMENT METHOD; BIOAVAILABILITY; HEAVY METAL; POLLUTION MONITORING; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; TOXICITY;

ARTICLE; ASSAY; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOAVAILABILITY; BIOSENSOR; CHIRONOMIDAE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LAKE; NONHUMAN; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; SAMPLE; SEDIMENTATION; TOXICITY TESTING; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER POLLUTION; WATER POLLUTION INDICATOR; WATER SAMPLING;

ARSENITES; BACTERIA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FORESTRY; FRESH WATER; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHIRONOMIDAE; CHIRONOMUS RIPARIUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS;

EID: 0346034707     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0269-7491(02)00307-X     Document Type: Article

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