Health evaluation of gold miners living in a mercury-contaminated village in serra pelada, pará, Brazil

Archives of Environmental and Occupational Health

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 121-128

  Corbett, Carlos Eduardo Pereira ^a   El Khouri, Marcelo ^a   Costa, André Nathan ^a   Gyuricza, Janos Valery ^a   Corbett, Julieta Franča ^b   Frizzarini, Ronaldo ^a   de Araújo Andrade, Daniel Ciampi ^a   Cordeiro, Quirino ^a   Stravogiannis, Andréas ^a   Chassot, Celso Alberto ^a   Vieira, José Luiz Fernandes ^c   Pinheiro, Maria da Conceição ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Ministry of Sciences and Technology   (United States)

^c Depart of Electrical Engeneering   (United States)

Author keywords

Exposure; Gold mining; Mercury; Neurology; Toxicology

Indexed keywords

MERCURY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DYSDIADOCHOKINESIA; DYSKINESIA; EXCITABILITY; EYE MOVEMENT DISORDER; FATIGUE; FEMALE; GINGIVITIS; HEALTH STATUS; HEARING LOSS; HEMIFACIAL ATROPHY; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; INVOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; IRRITABILITY; LIFESTYLE; MALARIA; MALE; MINING; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PARESTHESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSE ORGAN; SMOKING; TONGUE DISEASE; TREMOR; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT;

EID: 43149110391     PISSN: 19338244     EISSN: 21544700     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3200/AEOH.62.3.121-128     Document Type: Article

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