Temporal and spatial trends of organotin contamination in the livers of finless porpoises (Neophocaena phocaenoides) and their association with parasitic infection status

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 407, Issue 24, 2009, Pages 6173-6178

  Nakayama, Kei ^a   Matsudaira, Chiho ^a   Tajima, Yuko ^b   Yamada, Tadasu K ^b   Yoshioka, Motoi ^c   Isobe, Tomohiko ^a   Takahashi, Shin ^a   Tanabe, Shinsuke ^a  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY   (Japan)

^c MIE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Finless porpoises; Infectious disease; Liver trematodes; Lung nematodes; Organotin compounds

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL CONTAMINATION; CHEMICAL EXPOSURE; COASTAL AREA; FINLESS PORPOISE; FINLESS PORPOISES; HONG-KONG; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE EFFECTS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; LUNG NEMATODES; MARINE MAMMALS; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; ORGANOTIN COMPOUNDS; ORGANOTIN CONTAMINATION; ORGANOTINS; PARASITE INFECTION; PARASITIC INFECTIONS; POPULATION DECLINE; SPATIAL TRENDS;

COASTAL ZONES; CONTAMINATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; LIVER; MARINE POLLUTION; ORGANOMETALLICS; TIN COMPOUNDS;

MAMMALS;

BUTYLTIN;

CHEMICAL POLLUTANT; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; ORGANOTIN COMPOUND; PARASITE INFESTATION; POPULATION DECLINE; PORPOISE;

ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTAMINATED ANIMAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); HEPATITIS; HONG KONG; JAPAN; LIVER LEVEL; LUNG INFECTION; MALE; NEMATODIASIS; NEOPHOCAENA PHOCAENOIDES; NONHUMAN; PORPOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA POLLUTION; SEASHORE; TREMATODIASIS;

ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HONG KONG; JAPAN; LIVER; LUNG; MALE; NEMATODE INFECTIONS; ORGANOTIN COMPOUNDS; PORPOISES; TREMATODE INFECTIONS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONG KONG; JAPAN;

CETACEA; MAMMALIA; NEMATODA; NEOPHOCAENA PHOCAENOIDES; PHOCOENIDAE; TREMATODA;

EID: 70350335042     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2009.08.043     Document Type: Article

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