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Table 2 Suspensions and extracts applied to patch test wells

From: Cutaneous hypersensitivity reactions to freshwater cyanobacteria – human volunteer studies

Test material or species

Patch series type

Strain

Source

Cyanotoxin (concentration in 0.25% w/v lyophilised cyanobacteria patch preparation)

Sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS, aka sodium lauryl sulfate)

Positive irritant control

 

Sigma-Aldrich P/L

 

Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii

Cyanobacterial cell suspension

AWT 205 Non-axenic

Australian Water Technologies culture collection Sydney, Australia

Cylindrospermopsin (2.0 mg/L)

C. raciborskii

Cyanobacterial LPS extract

AWT 205 Non-axenic

Australian Water Technologies culture collection Sydney, Australia

 

Microcystis aeruginosa

C. raciborskii

Aphanizomenon sp.

Cyanobacterial cell suspension

 

Field sample, North Pine Dam (South-east Queensland, Australia)

Microcystins (200 μg/L total microcystins expressed as MC-LR); cylindrospermopsin (6.4 μg/L)

M. aeruginosa

Cyanobacterial cell suspension

 

Field sample, Lake Coolmunda (Southern Queensland, Australia)

Non-toxic (nil detect for microcystins)

M. aeruginosa

Cyanobacterial LPS extract

 

Field sample, Lake Coolmunda (Southern Queensland, Australia)

 

M. aeruginosa

Cyanobacterial cell suspension

QH/NR/Ma/03 Non-axenic

Queensland Health Scientific Services culture collection, Brisbane, Australia

Microcystins [predominantly microcystin-LR] (1.60 mg/L total microcystins expressed as MC-LR)

Anabaena circinalis

Cyanobacterial cell suspension

 

Field sample, Lake Coolmunda (Southern Queensland, Australia)

Saxitoxins (19 μg/L total saxitoxins expressed as saxitoxin)

Planktothrix sp.

Cyanobacterial cell suspension

QH/NR/Px/01 Non-axenic

Queensland Health Scientific Services culture collection, Brisbane, Australia

Non-toxic (nil detect for microcystins)

Chlorella vulgaris

Green algal cell suspension

CS-42 Non-axenic

CSIRO collection of living microalgae, Hobart, Australia