Literature review of Florida red tide: implications for human health effects

Harmful Algae - Tập 3 Số 2 - Trang 99-115 - 2004
Barbara Kirkpatrick1, Lora E. Fleming2, Dominick Squicciarini2, L. C. Backer3, Richard B. Clark4, William M. Abraham2, Janet M. Benson5, Yung Sung Cheng5, David Johnson4, Richard H. Pierce1, Julia Zaias2, Gregory D. Bossart2, Daniel G. Baden6
1Mote Marine Laboratory, 1600 Ken Thompson Parkway, Sarasota, FL, 34236, USA.
2NIEHS Marine and Freshwater Biomedical Sciences Center, University of Miami, 4600 Rickenbacker Causeway, Miami, FL 33149, USA
3National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road NE, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
4Florida Department of Health, 4052 Bald Cypress Way, Tallahassee, FL 32399, USA
5Lovelace Respiratory Institute, 2425 Ridgecrest, SE Albuquerque, NM 87108, USA
6Center for Marine Science, University of North Carolina, 5600 Marvin K. Moss Lane, Wilmington, NC 28409, USA

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