Case report: Three farmworkers who gave birth to infants with birth defects closely grouped in time and place - Florida and North Carolina, 2004-2005

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 115, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 787-791

  Calvert, Geoffrey M ^a   Alarcon, Walter A ^a   Chelminski, Ann ^b   Crowley, Mark S ^c   Barrett, Rosanna ^d   Correa, Adolfo ^e   Higgins, Sheila ^b   Leon, Hugo L ^c   Correia, Jane ^d   Becker, Alan ^d   Allen, Ruth H ^f   Evans, Elizabeth ^f  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES   (United States)

^c Collier County Health Department ^*  (United States)

^d FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^e NATIONAL CENTER ON BIRTH DEFECTS AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES   (United States)

^f U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Congenital abnormalities; Ectromelia; Farmworkers; Fungicides; Goldenhar Syndrome; Insecticides; Micrognathism; Pesticides; Prevention and control; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

2 PYRROLIDONE DERIVATIVE; ABAMECTIN; MANCOZEB; METHAMIDOPHOS; PESTICIDE;

ADULT; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; BIRTH DEFECT; CASE REPORT; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MULTIPLE MALFORMATION SYNDROME; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; ORGANOGENESIS; PESTICIDE SPRAYING; PHOCOMELIA; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; UNITED STATES; VEGETABLE BREEDING;

AGRICULTURE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; FEMALE; FLORIDA; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; NORTH CAROLINA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PESTICIDES;

LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM;

EID: 34249297659     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.9647     Document Type: Article

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