Arsenic groundwater contamination in Middle Ganga Plain, Bihar, India: A future danger?

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 111, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1194-1201

  Chakraborti, Dipankar ^a   Mukherjee, Subhash C ^b   Pati, Shyamapada ^c   Sengupta, Mrinal K ^a   Rahman, Mohammad M ^a   Chowdhury, Uttam K ^a   Lodh, Dilip ^a   Chanda, Chitta R ^a   Chakraborti, Anil K ^a   Basu, Gautam K ^a  

^a JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE AND HOSPITAL   (India)

^c INSTITUTE OF POST GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Arsenic poisoning; Childhood poisoning; Ganga Plain; Neurotoxicity; Reproductive toxicity; Semria Ojha Patti village

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; DRINKING WATER; GROUND WATER;

ADULT; BANGLADESH; CHILD; COASTAL PLAIN; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FETUS WASTAGE; HUMAN; INDIA; MALNUTRITION; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; NEPAL; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPATHY; PREDICTION; PREMATURE LABOR; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SAMPLE SIZE; SKIN DEFECT; TISSUE LEVEL; URINE LEVEL; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION;

EID: 0043199810     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.5966     Document Type: Review

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