‘The Plastic Nile’: First Evidence of Microplastic Contamination in Fish from the Nile River (Cairo, Egypt)

The presence of microplastics (MPs) in the world’s longest river, the Nile River, has yet to be reported. This small-scale study aimed to provide the first information about MPs in the Nile River by sampling the digestive tracts of two fish species, the Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus, n = 29) a...

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Autores principales: Khan, Farhan R., Shashoua, Yvonne, Crawford, Alex, Drury, Anna, Sheppard, Kevin, Stewart, Kenneth, Sculthorp, Toby
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7356599/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32218348
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/toxics8020022

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7356599/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32218348
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/toxics8020022

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