Detailed study report of Samta, one of the arsenic-affected villages of Jessore District, Bangladesh

Current Science

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 134-145

  Biswas, Bhajan K ^a   Dhar, Ratan K ^a   Samanta, Gautam ^a   Mandal, Badal K ^a   Chakraborti, Dipankar ^a   Faruk, Imtiaz ^b   Islam, Kazi Saiful ^b   Chowdhury, Md Moniruzzaman ^b   Islam, Ashraful ^b   Roy, Shibtosh ^b  

^a JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b Dhaka Community Hospital   (Bangladesh)

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