Toxic cyanobacteria and drinking water: Impacts, detection, and treatment

X He, YL Liu, A Conklin, J Westrick, LK Weavers… - Harmful algae, 2016 - Elsevier
Blooms of toxic cyanobacteria in water supply systems are a global issue affecting water
supplies on every major continent except Antarctica. The occurrence of toxic cyanobacteria …

Challenges for mapping cyanotoxin patterns from remote sensing of cyanobacteria

RP Stumpf, TW Davis, TT Wynne, JL Graham, KA Loftin… - Harmful algae, 2016 - Elsevier
Using satellite imagery to quantify the spatial patterns of cyanobacterial toxins has several
challenges. These challenges include the need for surrogate pigments–since cyanotoxins …

Quality issues of research antibodies

MG Weller - Analytical chemistry insights, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
According to several recent studies, an unexpectedly high number of landmark papers seem
to be not reproducible by independent laboratories. Nontherapeutic antibodies used for …

Production of monoclonal antibodies with broad specificity and development of an immunoassay for microcystins and nodularin in water

H Yang, R Dai, H Zhang, C Li, X Zhang, J Shen… - Analytical and …, 2016 - Springer
Microcystins (MCs) and nodularin (NOD) are cyanobacterial hepatotoxins that can greatly
harm human health. Multi-analyte immunoassays provide efficient and cheap methods of …

Toxicity of botulinum neurotoxin by inhalation: implications in bioterrorism

M Adler, DR Franz - 2016 - books.rsc.org
Clostridium botulinum and related clostridial species constitute a family of spore-forming,
anaerobic, Gram-positive bacteria found in soils, aquatic sediments and decaying animal …

[PDF][PDF] The Mutual influences of man-made pollutants and allergic manifestations

PV Jeurink, A Damialis, H Wichers… - … : Applied Studies in …, 2016 - ageconsearch.umn.edu
Abstract The United Nations have projected the world population to reach 9.6 billion by 2050
and that, by then, over 50% of the world population will be living in urban areas. This …