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Low doses of antibiotics are ubiquitous in the marine environment and may exert negative effects on non-target aquatic organisms. Using primary macrophages of common carp, we investigated the mechanisms of action following exposure to several common antibiotics; cefotaxime, enrofloxacin, tetracycline, sulfamonomethoxine, and their mixtures, and exp...
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The concentration-response relationship between mortality and long-term exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5) has not been fully elucidated, especially at high levels of PM2.5 concentrations. We aimed to evaluate chronic effects of ambient PM2.5 exposure on deaths among Chinese adults in high-exposure settings. Participants of the Prediction ...
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A new Air Quality Health Index (AQHI) was developed in Canada or several single cities as a promising health risk communication tool. To construct a national AQHI in China and compare its validity in predicting daily mortality risk with the existing Air Quality Index (AQI). We established the AQHI as the sum of excess total mortality risks associat...
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The infant microbiome contributes to health status across the lifespan, but environmental factors affecting microbial communities are poorly understood, particularly when toxic and essential elements interact. We aimed to identify the associations between a spectrum of other early-postnatal nutrient or toxic elemental exposures measured and the inf...
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Substantial perfluoroalkyl acids (PFAAs) production still occurs in China, and the consumption of aquatic products is a critical exposure pathway of PFAAs in humans. In this study, specimens of 16 freshwater and 40 marine species were collected in the river-estuary-sea environment affected by a mega fluorochemical industry park in China in 2015, an...
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Personal exposure to air pollution is affected by its concentration in the microenvironment and individual time-activity patterns. To investigate personal black carbon (BC) exposure levels and identify their potential determinants, we conducted a panel study among 67 elderly residents aged 60-69 years in Jinan, China. Personal BC exposure was measu...
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Portable XRF is a rapid, mobile, high throughput, and potentially cost effective instrumental analytical technique capable of elemental assessment. It is widely used for environmental assessment of soils in a variety of contexts such as agriculture and pollution both in-situ and ex-situ, to varying levels of success. Portable XRF performance for so...
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In the United States, onshore oil and gas extraction operations generate an estimated 900 billion gallons of produced water annually, making it the largest waste stream associated with upstream development of petroleum hydrocarbons. Management and disposal practices of produced water vary from deep well injection to reuse of produced water in agric...
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Few studies have investigated congenital anomalies in relation to municipal waste incinerators (MWIs) and results are inconclusive. To conduct a national investigation into the risk of congenital anomalies in babies born to mothers living within 10 km of an MWI associated with: i) modelled concentrations of PM10 as a proxy for MWI emissions more ge...
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Arsenic (As) is a highly toxic element which naturally occurs in drinking water. In spite of substantial evidence on the association between many illnesses and chronic consumption of As, there is still a considerable uncertainty about the health risks due to low As concentrations in drinking water. In the Netherlands, drinking water companies aim t...
