A review of analytical methods for assessing the public health risk from microcystin in the aquatic environment

Journal of Water Supply: Research and Technology - AQUA

Volumn 54, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 509-518

  Hawkins, Peter R ^a   Novic, Sreten ^a   Cox, Peter ^a   Neilan, Brett A ^a   Burns, Brendan P ^a   Shaw, Glen ^a   Wickramasinghe, Wasa ^a   Peerapornpisal, Yuwadee ^a   Ruangyuttikarn, Werawan ^a   Itayama, Tomoaki ^a   Saitou, Takeshi ^a   Mizuochi, Motoyuki ^a   Inamori, Yuhei ^a  

^a SYDNEY WATER CORPORATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Microcystin; Public health risk assessment; Toxigenic cyanobacteria

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; ENZYMES; HEALTH RISKS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; PROTEINS;

MICROCYSTIN; PUBLIC HEALTH RISK ASSESSMENT; TOXIGENIC CYANOBACTERIA;

AQUACULTURE;

AQUACULTURE; BACTERIA; ENZYMES; HEALTH RISKS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; PROTEINS;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; CYANOBACTERIUM; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT;

CYANOBACTERIA;

EID: 31144476273     PISSN: 00037214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/aqua.2005.0045     Document Type: Review

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