Murshidabad - One of the nine groundwater arsenic-affected districts of West Bengal, India. Part I: Magnitude of contamination and population at risk

Clinical Toxicology

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 823-834

  Mahmudur Rahman, Mohammad ^a   Kumar Sengupta, Mrinal ^a   Ahamed, Sad ^a   Lodh, Dilip ^a   Das, Bhaskar ^a   Amir Hossain, M ^a   Nayak, Bishwajit ^a   Mukherjee, Amitava ^a   Chakraborti, Dipankar ^a   Chandra Mukherjee, Subhash ^b   Pati, Shymapada ^c   Chandra Saha, Kshitish ^d   Kanti Palit, Shyamal ^e   Kaies, Imrul ^e   Kishore Barua, Ajoy ^e   Abdul Asad, Khondaker ^e  

^a JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE AND HOSPITAL   (India)

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

^d CALCUTTA SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (India)

^e Dhaka Community Hospital   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Arsenic groundwater contamination; Arsenic in biologic samples; Exposure to arsenic contamination; Murshidabad district

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; GROUND WATER; ORGANOARSENIC DERIVATIVE;

ARSENIC POISONING; ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOW INJECTION ANALYSIS; HAIR ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INDIA; LABORATORY TEST; NAIL; POPULATION RISK; QUALITY CONTROL; RISK ASSESSMENT; STANDARD; URINALYSIS; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER QUALITY; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; NEOPLASM; RISK; SKIN DISEASE; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER SUPPLY;

ARSENIC POISONING; ARSENICALS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; INDIA; NEOPLASMS; RISK; SKIN DISEASES; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 33644846247     PISSN: 15563650     EISSN: 15569519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15563650500357461     Document Type: Article

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