Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in indoor air and dust in Kuwait: Implications for sources and nondietary human exposure

Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 503-512

  Gevao, Bondi ^a   Al Bahloul, Majed ^a   Zafar, Jamal ^a   Al Matrouk, Khalid ^a   Helaleh, Murad ^a  

^a KUWAIT INSTITUTE FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZO[A]PYRENE; BENZO[B]FLUORANTHENE; BENZO[K]FLUORANTHENE; FLUORANTHERE; FLUORENE; PHENANTHRENE; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; PYRENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AIR QUALITY; AIR SAMPLING; AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DUST; HEALTH RISK; INDOOR AIR; POLLUTION EXPOSURE;

AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; DUST EXPOSURE; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AIR; AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC;

ASIA; EURASIA; KUWAIT [MIDDLE EAST]; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 35348892787     PISSN: 00904341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00244-006-0261-6     Document Type: Article

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