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A review of nitrates in drinking water: maternal exposure and adverse reproductive and developmental outcomes

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A review of nitrates in drinking water: maternal exposure and adverse reproductive and developmental outcomes

scientific article published on January 2007

Ackee fruit poisoning: an outbreak investigation in Haiti 2000-2001, and review of the literature

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Aerosolized Red Tide Toxins (Brevetoxins) and Asthma: Continued health effects after 1 hour beach exposure

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Aerosolized red-tide toxins (brevetoxins) and asthma

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Aflatoxin contamination of commercial maize products during an outbreak of acute aflatoxicosis in eastern and central Kenya

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Algal bloom-associated disease outbreaks among users of freshwater lakes--United States, 2009-2010.

scientific article published on January 2014

An Epidemiologic Approach to the Study of Aerosolized Florida Red Tides

scientific article published on 01 January 2004

An Updated Review of Ciguatera Fish Poisoning: Clinical, Epidemiological, Environmental, and Public Health Management

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Animals as sentinels of human health hazards of environmental chemicals

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Assessing Acute Diarrhea from sulfate in drinking water

scholarly article published in September 2001

Assessing arsenic exposure in households using bottled water or point-of-use treatment systems to mitigate well water contamination

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Assessing the Incidence of Ciguatera Fish Poisoning with Two Surveys Conducted in Culebra, Puerto Rico, during 2005 and 2006

scientific article published on January 24, 2012

Assessing the acute gastrointestinal effects of ingesting naturally occurring, high levels of sulfate in drinking water

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Beaches and HABs: Successful Expansion of the Florida Red Tide Reporting System for Protection of Public Health through Community Education and Outreach

scientific article published on January 1, 2009

Bleomycin effects on mouse meiotic chromosomes

scientific article published on 01 November 1990

Brevetoxin composition in water and marine aerosol along a Florida beach: Assessing potential human exposure to marine biotoxins

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Canine cyanotoxin poisonings in the United States (1920s-2012): review of suspected and confirmed cases from three data sources

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Characterization of aerosols containing microcystin

scientific article published on 12 October 2007

Characterization of marine aerosol for assessment of human exposure to brevetoxins

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Ciguatera and scombroid fish poisoning in the United States

scientific article published on 5 October 2013

Ciguatera fish poisoning: treatment, prevention and management

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Cochlear function in mice following inhalation of brevetoxin-3.

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Current approaches to cyanotoxin risk assessment and risk management around the globe

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Cyanobacteria and algae blooms: Review of health and environmental data from the Harmful Algal Bloom-Related Illness Surveillance System (HABISS) 2007-2011

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Effects on the immune system associated with living near a pesticide dump site

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Emerging areas of research reported during the CDC National Conference on Pfiesteria: from biology to public health

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Environmental contaminants in coastal populations: Comparisons with the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) and resident dolphins

scientific article published on 23 August 2019

Environmental exposures to Florida red tides: Effects on emergency room respiratory diagnoses admissions

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Environmental public health surveillance: possible estuary-associated syndrome

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Epidemiology of recreational exposure to freshwater cyanobacteria--an international prospective cohort study

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Estimated burden of disease from arsenic in drinking water supplied by domestic wells in the United States

scientific article published on 01 October 2019

Estimating the High-Arsenic Domestic-Well Population in the Conterminous United States

scientific article published on 18 October 2017

Evaluating Evidence for Association of Human Bladder Cancer with Drinking-Water Chlorination Disinfection By-Products

scientific article (publication date: 2015)

Evaluation of associations between lifetime exposure to drinking water disinfection by-products and bladder cancer in dogs

Evaluation of conventional and alternative monitoring methods for a recreational marine beach with nonpoint source of fecal contamination.

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Evaluation of harmful algal bloom outreach activities

scientific article published on 14 December 2007

Evidence that methanol inhalation does not induce chromosome damage in mice

scientific article published on 01 July 1991

Exogenous and endogenous determinants of blood trihalomethane levels after showering

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Exposure and effect assessment of aerosolized red tide toxins (brevetoxins) and asthma

scientific article published on 13 April 2009

Exposure assessment of a mercury spill in a Nevada school -- 2004

scientific article published on 01 May 2007

Exposure to regular gasoline and ethanol oxyfuel during refueling in Alaska

scientific article published on August 1, 1997

Fish bioassay and toxin induction experiments for research on Pfiesteria piscicida and other toxic dinoflagellates: workshop summary

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Florida Red Tide Perception: Residents versus Tourists

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Florida Red Tide Toxins (Brevetoxins) and Longitudinal Respiratory Effects in Asthmatics

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Florida red tide and human health: a pilot beach conditions reporting system to minimize human exposure

scientific article published on 27 May 2008

Freshwater Algal Blooms & Public Health.

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Frontiers in Outreach and Education: The Florida Red Tide Experience

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Genotoxicity of inhibitors of DNA topoisomerases I (camptothecin) and II (m-AMSA) in vivo and in vitro

scientific article published on November 1990

Harmful Algal Blooms: At the Interface Between Coastal Oceanography and Human Health

scientific article published on June 2006

Household exposures to drinking water disinfection by-products: whole blood trihalomethane levels

scientific article published on 01 July 2000

Human Health and Ocean Pollution

scientific article published on 03 December 2020

Impacts of climate variability and future climate change on harmful algal blooms and human health

scientific article (publication date: 2008)

Initial evaluation of the effects of aerosolized Florida red tide toxins (brevetoxins) in persons with asthma

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Inland Transport of Aerosolized Florida Red Tide Toxins

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Investigation of the relation between self-reported food consumption and household chemical exposures with urinary levels of selected nonpersistent pesticides

scientific article published in November 2002

Linking the oceans to public health: current efforts and future directions

scientific article published on 7 November 2008

Machine Learning Models of Arsenic in Private Wells Throughout the Conterminous United States As a Tool for Exposure Assessment in Human Health Studies

scientific article published on 17 March 2021

Marine harmful algal blooms, human health and wellbeing: challenges and opportunities in the 21st century

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Methods of collection and quality assessment of arsenic data in well-water supplies in Maine, 2001–2 and 2006–7

scientific article published in 2020

Microbial concentrations on fresh produce are affected by postharvest processing, importation, and season.

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Naturally Occurring Water Pollutants

Neuropsychological study of ciguatera fish poisoning: a longitudinal case-control study

scientific article published on 4 May 2007

Nitrates in drinking water and methemoglobin levels in pregnancy: a longitudinal study

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Occupational exposure to aerosolized brevetoxins during Florida red tide events: effects on a healthy worker population

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Outbreak bias in illness reporting and case confirmation in ciguatera fish poisoning surveillance in south Florida

scientific article published on November 2006

Outbreaks Associated with Untreated Recreational Water - United States, 2000-2014

scholarly article by Daniel S Graciaa et al published August 2018 in American Journal of Transplantation

Outbreaks Associated with Untreated Recreational Water - United States, 2000-2014

scientific article published on 29 June 2018

Overview of aerosolized Florida red tide toxins: exposures and effects

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Paralytic shellfish poisonings resulting from an algal bloom in Nicaragua

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Pet dogs as sentinels for environmental contamination

scientific article published in July 2001

Placental transport of brevetoxin-3 in CD-1 mice

scientific article published on 18 August 2006

Plasma 1,1-dichloro-2,2-bis(p-chlorophenyl)ethylene (DDE) levels and immune response

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Prominent Human Health Impacts from Several Marine Microbes: History, Ecology, and Public Health Implications

scientific article published on October 11, 2010

Recreational Exposure to Low Concentrations of Microcystins During an Algal Bloom in a Small Lake

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Recreational exposure to aerosolized brevetoxins during Florida red tide events

article by Lorraine C Backer et al published March 2003 in Harmful Algae

Recreational exposure to low concentrations of microcystins during an algal bloom in a small lake

scientific article published on 26 June 2008

Recreational exposure to microcystins during algal blooms in two California lakes

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Recreational water-associated disease outbreaks--United States, 2009-2010.

scientific article published on January 2014

Reduction in drinking water arsenic exposure and health risk through arsenic treatment among private well households in Maine and New Jersey, USA

scientific article published on 25 May 2020

Reported respiratory symptom intensity in asthmatics during exposure to aerosolized Florida red tide toxins

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Review of Florida Red Tide and Human Health Effects

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Sentinel Animals in a One Health Approach to Harmful Cyanobacterial and Algal Blooms

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Serum follicle-stimulating hormone and luteinizing hormone levels in women aged 35-60 in the U.S. population: the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III, 1988-1994)

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Sister chromatid exchange and chromosome aberration analyses in mice after in vivo exposure to acrylonitrile, styrene, or butadiene monoxide

scientific article published on 01 January 1986

Stage-specific damage to synaptonemal complexes and metaphase chromosomes induced by X rays in male mouse germ cells

scientific article published on 01 February 1991

State-Level Policies Concerning Private Wells in the United States

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

Surveillance for Harmful Algal Bloom Events and Associated Human and Animal Illnesses - One Health Harmful Algal Bloom System, United States, 2016-2018

scientific article published on 18 December 2020

Synaptonemal complex analysis in genetic toxicology

scientific article published on 01 January 1990

Synaptonemal complex damage as a measure of genotoxicity at meiosis

scientific article published on 01 December 1988

Synaptonemal complex damage in relation to meiotic chromosome aberrations after exposure of male mice to cyclophosphamide

scientific article published on 01 August 1988

Synaptonemal complex damage induced by clastogenic and anti-mitotic chemicals: implications for non-disjunction and aneuploidy

scientific article published on 01 October 1988

The BEACHES Study: health effects and exposures from non-point source microbial contaminants in subtropical recreational marine waters

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The costs of respiratory illnesses arising from Florida gulf coast Karenia brevis blooms

scientific article published on May 2009

The effects of acrylamide on mouse germ-line and somatic cell chromosomes

scientific article published on 01 January 1989

The impact of excess heat events in Maricopa County, Arizona: 2000--2005.

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The influence of physicochemical properties on the internal dose of trihalomethanes in humans following a controlled showering exposure

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Traditional and molecular analyses for fecal indicator bacteria in non-point source subtropical recreational marine waters.

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Tumorigenesis and genotoxicity of ethyl carbamate and vinyl carbamate in rodent cells.

scientific article published on October 1986

Unregulated drinking water initiative for environmental surveillance and public health

scientific article published on March 1, 2011

Urolithiasis, Urinary Cancer, and Home Drinking Water Source in the United States Territory of Guam, 2006-2010.

scientific article published on 24 May 2016

Water quality and public health in Georgia

scientific article published on 01 December 1999