Exposure of young children working on Mexican tobacco plantations to organophosphorous and carbamic pesticides, indicated by cholinesterase depression

Child: Care, Health and Development

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 246-248

  Gamlin, Jennifer ^a   Romo, P Diaz ^b   Hesketh, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Huicholes y Plaguicidias Project   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Anaemia; Child labour; Developing countries; Epidemiology; Pesticide

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; CARBAMATE PESTICIDE; HEMOGLOBIN; ORGANOPHOSPHATE PESTICIDE;

ADOLESCENT; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; HARVEST PERIOD; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEXICO; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL TOXICOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOBACCO INDUSTRY;

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; ADOLESCENT; AGRICULTURE; ANEMIA; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CARBAMATES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHOLINESTERASES; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INSECTICIDES; MALE; MEXICO; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; PESTICIDE RESIDUES; TOBACCO;

EID: 34247105323     PISSN: 03051862     EISSN: 13652214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2214.2006.00702.x     Document Type: Article

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