Groundwater arsenic contamination in Bangladesh and West Bengal, India

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 108, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 393-397

  Chowdhury, Uttam K ^a   Biswas, Bhajan K ^a   Chowdhury, Tarit Roy ^a   Samanta, Gautam ^a   Mandal, Badal K ^a   Basu, Gautam C ^a   Chanda, Chitta R ^a   Lodh, Dilip ^a   Saha, Khitish C ^a   Mukherjee, Subhas K ^b   Roy, Sibtosh ^c   Kabir, Saiful ^c   Quamruzzaman, Quazi ^c   Chakraborti, Dipankar ^a  

^a JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE AND HOSPITAL   (India)

^c Dhaka Community Hospital   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Arsenic in water, hair, nail, urine, skin scale samples; Arsenic affected districts in Bangladesh and West Bengal, India; Arsenical skin lesions; Combat the arsenic crisis; Estimated population drinking arsenic contaminated water; Groundwater arsenic contamination

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; GROUND WATER;

ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HAIR ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INDIA; NAIL; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN DEFECT; URINALYSIS; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SAMPLING; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 0033932462     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.00108393     Document Type: Article

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