Gastrointestinal upsets and new copper plumbing - Is there a connection?

Wisconsin Medical Journal

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 49-53

  Knobeloch, Lynda ^a,f   Schubert, Carla ^b   Hayes, Jennifer ^b   Clark, James ^c   Fitzgerald, Charles ^d   Fraundorff, Anthony ^e  

^a Wisconsin Dept Hlth and Fam Serv

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c Dane Co Department of Public Health

^d Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources   (United States)

^e Lincoln County Health Department

^f Bureau of Public Health   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER;

ABDOMINAL CRAMP; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEADACHE; HOME; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAUSEA; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SUPPLY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COPPER; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HOUSING; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SANITARY ENGINEERING; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL; WISCONSIN;

EID: 0031962203     PISSN: 00436542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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