Anthropogenic activities cause the release of vast amounts of contaminants into the environment and thus also into surface- and groundwaters. Regulatory monitoring determines whether critical threshold concentrations are surpassed, by mostly occasional probing. This irregular testing, however, do...

Anthropogenic activities cause the release of vast amounts of contaminants into the environment and thus also into surface- and groundwaters. Regulatory monitoring determines whether critical threshold concentrations are surpassed, by mostly occasional probing. This irregular testing, however, do...

BACKGROUND: Hepatic alveolar echinococcosis (HAE) is caused by the growth of Echinococcus multilocularis larvae in the liver. It is a chronic and potentially lethal parasitic disease. Early stage diagnosis for this disease is currently not available due to its long asymptomatic ...