| perfluorinated compounds in river water, river sediment, market fish, and wildlife samples from japan. | perfluorinated organic compounds (pfcs) such as pfos, pfoa, pfbs, pfhxs, pfosa and pfdoa were determined in river water, river sediment, liver of market fish and liver of wildlife samples from japan. concentrations of pfoa and pfos in water samples were 7.9-110 and <5.2-10 ng/l. only pfoa were detected in sediment from kyoto river at 1.3-3.9 ng/g dry wt. among fish, only jack mackerel showed pfoa and pfos at 10 and 1.6 ng/g wet wt. wildlife liver contained pfosa, pfos, pfdoa, pfoa and pfhxs in t ... | 2007 | 17634852 |
| molecular survey of babesia gibsoni using haemaphysalis longicornis collected from dogs and cats in japan. | a nationwide survey of babesia gibsoni using haemaphysalis longicornis collected from dogs and cats in japan was conducted using molecular methods. a total of 1,341 h. longicornis, including 305 females, 14 males, 332 nymphs and 690 larvae (153 pools) from 44 prefectures, were examined by b. gibsoni-targeted pcr. partial sequence analysis revealed that 12 of 13 positive samples sequenced, including samples from tottori, hiroshima, yamaguchi, tokushima, ehime and oita prefectures (all in western ... | 2014 | 24920547 |