Mercury contamination in humans linked to river chemistry in the Amazon basin

Ambio

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 519-521

  Silva Forsberg, Maria Clara ^a   Forsberg, Bruce Rider ^b   Zeidemann, Vivian Karina ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

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MERCURY (ELEMENT); ORGANIC CARBON; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RIVER POLLUTION;

BRAZIL;

CELLULAR ORGANISMS;

EID: 0032749373     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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16. This work was supported by the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia, the Fundação Victoria Amazonica and the National Science Foundation. We thank C.R. Padovani, R.O. da Silva, D. Cleary, T.P. Pimentel, M.E. McClain, E.C. Chagas, A.E. Martins, S.C. Bezerra, E. Sargentini, Marc Roulet and A. Souza for assistance with field collections and laboratory analyses. We also thank O. Malm, W. J. Figueiredo and N. Miekely for collaborating in interlaboratory comparisons and Marc Lucotte for use of the laboratory infrastructure of the Environmental Research Chair of the University of Quebec.
17. First submitted 8 December 1997. Accepted for publication after revision 6 April 1998.