Acute skin irritant effects of cyanobacteria (blue‐green algae) in healthy volunteers

• Egile Nagusiak: Louis Pilotto (Egilea), Peter Hobson (Egilea), Michael D. Burch (Egilea), Geetha Ranmuthugala (Egilea), Robyn Attewell (Egilea), Warren Weightman (Egilea)
• Formatua: Liburua
• Argitaratua: Elsevier, 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z.
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Abstract Objective: To assess the skin irritant potential of a range of laboratory grown cyanobacterial species using skin‐patch testing on human volunteers. Methods: Cell suspensions and extracts of cyanobacterial cultures of Microcystis aeruginosa (non‐toxic strain), Anabaena circinalis and Nodula...