Recreational and occupational field exposure to freshwater cyanobacteria - A review of anecdotal and case reports, epidemiological studies and the challenges for epidemiologic assessment

Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source

Volumn 5, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Stewart, Ian ^a,b   Webb, Penelope M ^c   Schluter, Philip J ^d   Shaw, Glen R ^a,b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b Cooperative Research Centre for Water Quality and Treatment ^*  (Australia)

^c QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^d AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (New Zealand)

^e GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN; NEUROTOXIN;

ACCIDENTAL DEATH; ACUTE DISEASE; ALLERGIC REACTION; BACTERIOPLANKTON; CERCARIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CYANOBACTERIUM; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HAY FEVER; HUMAN; INGESTION; LITERATURE; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MORBIDITY; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; REVIEW; SKIN DISEASE; SKIN PRURITUS; UNITED STATES; URTICARIA;

COHORT STUDIES; CYANOBACTERIA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; EUTROPHICATION; HUMANS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RECREATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; WATER SUPPLY;

CYANOBACTERIA;

EID: 33745795644     PISSN: 1476069X     EISSN: 1476069X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-069X-5-6     Document Type: Review

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