Establishment of Monitoring Methods and Risk Assessment for Microcystis and Microcystins in the Ambient Air near Eutrophic Surface Water Bodies / 優養化水體周界空氣中微囊藻及其毒素調查方法及風險評估研究

碩士 / 國立成功大學 / 環境工程學系 / 107 / Inhalation is a potential pathway for human exposure to cyanotoxins. However, research about measurement of microcystin in ambient air and inhalation exposure is limited. Therefore, this study is aimed to establish the sampling and analytical methods for microcystins in air and to estimate the exposure and health risk for the people living/working near studied lakes/reservoirs with cyanobacteria issues. Three different types of air samplers, including inhalable dust sampler (IOM), BioSampler® and steam-jet aerosol collector (SJAC), were chosen and studied to optimize sample collection of Microcystis and microcystins. Quantitative PCR (qPCR) was used to quantify the genes for Microcystis, and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry/ mass spectrometry (LC/MS/MS) were used to quantify microcystins. Field sampling were condudcted and the data were further used to determine the inhalation exposure of micricystins and to assess the human health risk.
For IOM, the results show that cell-bound 16S rRNA gene and mcyB gene were not significantly degraded in the sampling time of 8 hrs. However, for the extra-cellular DNA on the filtrate, only less than 0.1% of 16S rRNA gene and mcyB gene remained after 8 hrs of sampling. For BioSampler®, flow of pump is not the reason for the loss of genes in the process of pretreatment. The optimal recovery efficiency was 40% and 50% for 16S rRNA gene and mcyB gene respectively. Among the three media tested to improve collection efficiency, ASM was chosen, due primarily due to collection efficiency and ease to analyze.
Among the field sampling activities, the highest concentration of microcystins detected was collected with BioSampler® in Hulupi (HLP) pond sampling. The data were then used to evaluate the highest risk of inhalion for the people workng near HLP. The hazard index (HI) was less 1, 0.124, and no significant risk was expected.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:TW/107NCKU5515031
Date January 2019
CreatorsCheng-SyuanHuang, 黃丞瑄
ContributorsTsair-Fuh Lin, Ming-Yeng Lin, 林財富, 林明彥
Source SetsNational Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan
Languagezh-TW
Detected LanguageEnglish
Type學位論文 ; thesis
Format89

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