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Trace Elements in Water, Sediments and the Elongate Tigerfish Hydrocynus forskahlii (Cuvier 1819) from Lake Turkana, Kenya Including a Comprehensive Health Risk Analysis

  • Elick O. Otachi
  • , Christof Plessl
  • , Wilfried Koerner
  • , Annemarie Avenant-Oldewage
  • , Franz Jirsa (Corresponding author)

Publications: Contribution to journalArticlePeer Reviewed

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)286-291
Number of pages6
JournalBulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology
Volume95
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Sept 2015

Funding

We thank the Austrian Agency for International Cooperation in Education and Research (OeAD-GmbH), Centre for International Cooperation and Mobility (ICM) for funding this study through a scholarship/grant award within the Austrian Partnership Programme in Higher Education and Research for development-APPEAR. We also thank the Kenya Marine Fisheries Research Intitute (KMFRI), Turkana for provision of laboratory space, facilities and technical assistance and; The National Council of Science and Technology, Kenya for issuance of research permit number NCST/RR1/12/1/BS011/46.

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  1. SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
    SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

  • 104023 Environmental chemistry
  • 301211 Toxicology

Keywords

  • Trace elements
  • Hydrocynus forskahlii
  • Lake Turkana
  • Target hazard quotient (THQ)
  • HEAVY-METALS
  • FISH
  • NAIVASHA
  • RUBIDIUM
  • LITHIUM
  • TURKEY
  • ACCUMULATION
  • TOKAT
  • RIVER
  • ZINC

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