Access to safe drinking-water is essential to health, a basic human right and a component of
effective policy for health protection. A major World Health Organization (WHO) function to …

Cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) produce toxins that may present a hazard for drinking
water safety. These toxins (microcystins, nodularins, saxitoxins, anatoxin-a, anatoxin-a (s) …

Microcystins (MCs) are the most commonly studied cyanotoxins. While these past studies
have mainly focused on the toxicity of MCs, the evolutionary history of life has shown that …

Toxin-producing cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) are abundant in surface waters used as
drinking water resources. The toxicity of one group of these toxins, the microcystins, and …

Toxic cyanobacteria became more widely recognized as a potential health hazard in the
1990s, and in 1998 the World Health Organization (WHO) first published a provisional …

Many species of cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) produce secondary metabolites with
potent biotoxic or cytotoxic properties. These metabolites differ from the intermediates and …

The microcystins are produced by several species of common planktonic cyanobacteria
found in surface waters, but their biological function remains unknown. The microcystins …

Cyanobacteria are one of the earth's most ancient life forms. Evidence of their existence on
earth, derived from fossil records, encompasses a period of some 3.5 billion years in the late …

A recently developed commercial microtiter plate ELISA test kit for microcystins was
evaluated for its reproducibility, accuracy, detection limits in real samples, and comparability …

The contamination of both drinking and recreational water supplies by cyanobacteria is
increasingly a cause for concern worldwide. While contamination causes livestock deaths …