Mercury exposure and malaria prevalence among gold miners in Pará, Brazil

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 421-429

  Silbergeld, Ellen K ^a,d   Nash, Denis ^b,c   Trevant, Circey ^a   Strickland, G Thomas ^b,c   De Souza, Jose Maria ^c   Da Silva, Rui S U ^c  

^a The Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c INSTITUTO EVANDRO CHAGAS   (Brazil)

^d NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE   (United States)

Author keywords

Garimpagem; Malaria; Mercury; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; BRAZIL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MERCURIALISM; MINER; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PREVALENCE; URINE LEVEL; ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL; BLOOD; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MINING; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM; PRESCHOOL CHILD; URINE;

GOLD; MERCURY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; BRAZIL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GOLD; HUMANS; MALARIA; MALE; MERCURY; MIDDLE AGED; MINING; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM; PREVALENCE;

EID: 1842865529     PISSN: 00378682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0037-86822002000500001     Document Type: Article

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