Eating dirt

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1016-1021

  Callahan, Gerald N ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; BACTERIUM; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CLAY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EATING; FOOD INTAKE; HISTORY; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; INFECTION; MENTAL DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PICA; PREGNANCY; RELIGION; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTION; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; WASTE;

EID: 0042125471     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0908.AD0908     Document Type: Review

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