Concentration and particle size of airborne toxic algae (brevetoxin) derived from ocean red tide events

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 3443-3449

  Cheng, Yung Sung ^a   McDonald, Jacob D ^a   Kracko, Dean ^a   Irvin, C Mitch ^a   Zhou, Yue ^a   Pierce, Richard H ^b   Henry, Michael S ^b   Bourdelaisa, Andrea ^c   Naar, Jerome ^c   Baden, Daniel G ^c  

^a LOVELACE RESPIRATORY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b MOTE MARINE LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; AIR QUALITY; BLOOMS (METAL); DEPOSITION; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; PULMONARY DISEASES; TOXIC MATERIALS; WATER POLLUTION;

AIR CONCENTRATIONS; ANTIBODY ASSAYS; BREVETOXINS (PBTX); MARINE AEROSOLS;

ALGAE;

BREVETOXIN; THIOBUTABARBITAL;

AEROSOL; AIR QUALITY; ALGA; RED TIDE;

ACCURACY; AEROSOL; ALGA; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DINOFLAGELLATE; IMMUNOASSAY; KARENIA BREVIS; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT; MEXICO; PARTICLE SIZE; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; RED TIDE; REPRODUCIBILITY; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT;

AEROSOLS; AIR POLLUTANTS; ANIMALS; BATHING BEACHES; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; DINOFLAGELLIDA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FLORIDA; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HUMANS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; IRRITANTS; LUNG; MALE; MARINE TOXINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEUROTOXINS; OXOCINS; PARTICLE SIZE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEAWATER;

ALGAE; DINOPHYCEAE; KARENIA BREVIS;

EID: 21044433427     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es048680j     Document Type: Article

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