The Department of Pesticide Regulation Environmental Monitoring Branch has successfully used ELISA for analyses of pesticides in soil and water samples for over a decade using both in-house assays (Goh 1992a, 1992b, 1993, 1996) and commercially available kits (Goh 1990, 1991). We recently evaluated a commercial diazinon kit for its sensitivity, selectivity, accuracy and precision, etc. for surf...

The present study analysed the distribution of subfossil chironomid larval head caspules in a suite of surface sediment samples from a large deep subtropical lake, i.e. Lugu lake, located in Southwest China. In order to identify the relationships between environmental variables and the chironomid assemblages ordination methods were used. A total of 41 chironomid taxa were found across the 46 sa...

Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is one of the main causes of acute viral hepatitis of enteric transmission. HEV has been detected in environmental samples in several countries from Europe and Asia, constituting a risk factor for waterborne infection. In Colombia, HEV has been identified in samples obtained from patients as well as from swine, but no environmental studies have been carried out. To deter...

Produce-related outbreaks have been traced back to the preharvest environment. A longitudinal study was conducted on five farms in New York State to characterize the prevalence, persistence, and diversity of food-borne pathogens in fresh produce fields and to determine landscape and meteorological factors that predict their presence. Produce fields were sampled four times per year for 2 years. ...

abstracta novel floatation-spectrophotometric extraction method was developed for the recovery of tin (ii) from aqueous samples prior to determination by uv spectrophotometric detection. the method is based on the formation of a complex between tin (ii) and kalmagyte in ph=8. the complex is floated in the interface of n-hexane and aqueous phases. after removing the aqueous phase, the floated pa...

A novel fluorophotometric method for formaldehyde determination in environmental waters was developed: the method does not require any enrichment procedures. A flow-injection analysis method for the spectrofluorometric determination of formaldehyde in waters, which is based on the reaction of formaldehyde with acetoacetanilide and ammonia, is proposed. The proposed method shows a good linearity...

Accurately assessing the toxicity of complex, environmentally relevant mixtures remains an important challenge in ecotoxicology. The goal was to identify biological effects after exposure to environmental water samples and to determine whether the observed effects could be explained by the waterborne metal mixture found in the samples. Zebrafish embryos were exposed to water samples of five dif...

conclusions unless there are well-thought out strategies for minimizing the undesirable impact on the environment, it is not advisable that such projects be permitted. results the results showed that the negative environmental and social impacts of the project outweighed the positive impacts in terms of type, number, and intensity. materials and methods a checklist containing the positive, nega...

BACKGROUND Invasive fusariosis (IF) is a rare but often fatal fungal infection in immunosuppressed patients. In 2007, cases of IF above the expected epidemiologic baseline were detected in the hematology ward of a hospital in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Possible sources of infection were investigated by performing environmental sampling and patient isolate collection, followed by molecular typing. ...

Several recent outbreaks of toxoplasmosis were related to drinking water. We propose a strategy for Toxoplasma oocyst detection as part of an approach to detecting multiple waterborne parasites, including Giardia and Cryptosporidium spp., by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency method with the same sample. Water samples are filtered to recover Toxoplasma oocysts and purified on a sucrose de...