Monitoring hospital wastewaters for their probable genotoxicity and mutagenicity

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 187, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Sharma, Pratibha ^a   Mathur, N ^a   Singh, A ^a   Sogani, M ^b   Bhatnagar, P ^c   Atri, R ^a   Pareek, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RAJASTHAN   (India)

^b Jaipur Engineering College and Research Centre   (India)

^c IIS UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Genotoxicity; Hospital wastewaters; Mutagenicity; Short term bacterial assays; Water pollution

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; HOSPITALS; POTABLE WATER; RIVER POLLUTION; SALMONELLA; SURFACE WATERS; WASTEWATER DISPOSAL; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER POLLUTION;

BACTERIAL BIOASSAYS; EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANTS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; GENOTOXICITIES; HOSPITAL WASTEWATER; MUTAGENICITY; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SHORT TERM;

EFFLUENTS;

BIOASSAY; CHEMICAL POLLUTANT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EFFLUENT; GENOTOXICITY; HOSPITAL SECTOR; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; POLLUTION MONITORING; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER; WATER POLLUTION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOASSAY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFLUENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GENOTOXICITY; HOSPITAL WASTE; INDIA; METABOLIC ACTIVATION; MOUSE; MUTAGENICITY; NONHUMAN; SALMONELLA ENTERICA SUBSP. ENTERICA SEROVAR TYPHIMURIUM; SALMONELLA FLUCTUATION ASSAY; SOS CHROMOTEST; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SAMPLING; CHEMISTRY; DNA DAMAGE; HOSPITAL; MUTAGEN TESTING; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TOXICITY; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER POLLUTION;

INDIA; JAIPUR; RAJASTHAN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM;

MUTAGENIC AGENT; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANT;

BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; DNA DAMAGE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HOSPITALS; INDIA; MUTAGENICITY TESTS; MUTAGENS; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84957413692     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-014-4180-0     Document Type: Article

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