Urinary antimony in infancy

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 76, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 432-436

  Dezateux, Carol ^a   Delves, H Trevor ^b   Stocks, Janet ^a   Wade, Angela ^a   Pilgrim, Liane ^a   Costeloe, Kate ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b SOUTHAMPTON GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c ST BARTHOLOMEW S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antimony; Cotinine; Sudden infant death syndrome

Indexed keywords

ANTIMONY; COTININE;

ARTICLE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; DRUG ACCUMULATION; GAS LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LUNG FUNCTION; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; NEWBORN; PASSIVE SMOKING; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME; URINALYSIS; URINARY EXCRETION;

EID: 0030910685     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.76.5.432     Document Type: Article

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