Cyanobacterial (blue-green algal) toxins in water supplies: Cylindrospermopsins

Environmental Toxicology

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 299-304

  Falconer, Ian R ^a,b   Humpage, Andrew R ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

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

^c AUSTRALIAN WATER QUALITY CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cyanobacteria; Drinking water; Guideline values; Hepatotoxins; Monitoring; Water treatment

Indexed keywords

CYANOBACTERIA; GUIDELINE VALUES; HEPATOTOXINS;

HEALTH RISKS; LAKES; POTABLE WATER; TOXIC MATERIALS; WATER SUPPLY; WATER TREATMENT;

BACTERIA;

ALKALOID; BACTERIAL TOXIN; CYLINDROSPERMOPSIN; DRINKING WATER;

CYANOBACTERIUM; DRINKING WATER; HEALTH IMPACT; LAKE WATER; RIVER WATER; TOXIC ORGANISM; TOXIC SUBSTANCE; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; WATER TREATMENT;

BLUE GREEN ALGA; CARCINOGENICITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROL SYSTEM; CYANOBACTERIUM; GENOTOXICITY; HEALTH HAZARD; MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITION; RESEARCH; SAFETY; TOXICITY TESTING; WATER SUPPLY; WATER TREATMENT;

BACTERIAL TOXINS; CARCINOGENS; CYANOBACTERIA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; URACIL; WATER; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER PURIFICATION;

ASIA; AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; ISRAEL; JAPAN; MIDDLE EAST; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ALGAE; CYANOBACTERIA; CYLINDROSPERMOPSIS RACIBORSKII;

EID: 33746701372     PISSN: 15204081     EISSN: 15227278     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/tox.20194     Document Type: Conference Paper

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