Incidence of Minamata disease in communities along the Agano river, Niigata, Japan patterns of the exposure and official diagnosis of patients

Japanese Journal of Hygiene

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 599-611

  Kondo, Kiyotaro ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Attributable risk; Diagnostic accuracy; Exposed population; Incidence rate; Minamata disease; Niigata; Organic mercury

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINAMATA DISEASE; RIVER; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; WATER POLLUTION;

EID: 0029745359     PISSN: 00215082     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1265/jjh.51.599     Document Type: Article

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