Cyanotoxins: New health risk factor in Serbia
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Human health risk assessment related to cyanotoxins exposure.
This review focuses on the risk assessment associated with human exposure to cyanotoxins, secondary metabolites of an ubiquitous group of photosynthetic procariota. Cyanobacteria occur especially in eutrophic inland and coastal surface waters, where under favorable conditions they attain high densities and may form blooms and scums. Cyanotoxins can be grouped according to their biological effec...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Arhiv za onkologiju
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0354-7310,1450-9520
DOI: 10.2298/aoo0804055j