Lead-Glazed Ceramic Ware and Blood Lead Levels of Children in the City of Oaxaca, Mexico

Archives of Environmental Health

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 217-222

  Azcona Cruz, Maria Isabel ^a   Romero Placeres, Manuel ^a,e   Rothenberg, Stephen J ^a,b   Schnaas, Lourdes ^c   Zamora Muñoz, Jose S ^d  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE SALUD PÚBLICA   (Mexico)

^b CHARLES R DREW UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PERINATOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^d IIMAS UNAM   (Mexico)

^e INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE HIGIENE   (Cuba)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEAD;

ARTICLE; CHILD; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMAN; LEAD BLOOD LEVEL; LEAD POISONING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEXICO; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0033936256     PISSN: 00039896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00039890009603409     Document Type: Article

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