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Medlin, LK and Guillebault, D. 2019 Application of the µAqua microarray for pathogenic organisms across a marine/freshwater interface. Harmful Algae, 92. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hal.2019.101703
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Abstract/Summary
Monitoring drinking water quality is an important public health issue and pathogenic organisms present a particularly serious health hazard in freshwater bodies. However, many pathogenic bacteria, including cyanobacteria, and pathogenic protozoa can be swept into coastal lagoons and into near-shore marine environments where they continue to grow and pose a health threat to marine mammals and invertebrates. In this study, wetested the suitability of a phylochip (microarray for species detection) developed for freshwater pathogenic organisms to be applied to samples taken across a marine/freshwater interface at monthly intervals for two years. Toxic cyanobacteria and pathogenic protozoa were more numerous in a coastal lagoon than at the freshwater or marine site, indicating that this microarray can be used to detect the presence of these pathogens across a marine/freshwater interface and thus the potential for toxicity to occur within the entire watershed.
| Item Type: | Publication - Article |
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| Additional Keywords: | Cyanobacteria, Toxic algae, Phylochip, marine/freshwater interface |
| Subjects: | Botany Ecology and Environment Management Marine Sciences |
| Divisions: | Marine Biological Association of the UK > Ocean Biology |
| Depositing User: | Prof Linda Medlin |
| Date made live: | 09 Jul 2020 15:35 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Feb 2024 16:51 |
| URI: | https://plymsea.ac.uk/id/eprint/8937 |
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