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[Investigation of microcystin pollution on Dong Lake, Wuhan City]
Haixia Sui1, Weixing Yan, Haibin Xu
1National Institute of Nutrition and Food Safety, Chinese Center for Diseases Control and Prevention, Beijing 100021, China.
Objective:
To investigate the level of pollution of microcystin and its changing in freshwater lake and fish.
Methods:
Samples of freshwater and fish were collected from Dong Lake in Wuhan City. Samples were tested using ELISA.
Results:
All freshwater samples collected in July and October contained blue-green algae and it had become the dominant species. For the same waterblooming lake, MC content was significantly lower in July than that in October (P < 0.05). MC content in fish muscle was significantly lower than that in liver (P < 0.05).
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