Personal daily exposures to benzo(a)pyrene of taxi drivers in Genoa, Italy

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 330, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 39-45

  Piccardo, Maria Teresa ^a   Stella, Anna ^a   Redaelli, Anna ^a   Balducci, Daniele ^a   Coradeghini, Rosella ^a   Minoia, Claudio ^b   Valerio, Federico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b IRCCS   (Italy)

Author keywords

Air pollution; BaP personal exposure; Fixed monitoring station; Taxi drivers; Traffic

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); MONITORING; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

BENZO(A)PYRENE (BAP); TAXI DRIVERS;

BENZENE;

BENZO[A]PYRENE; CARCINOGEN;

AIR QUALITY; OCCUPATION; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; TRAFFIC EMISSION;

AIRBORNE INFECTION; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; DRIVER; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ITALY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; AIR POLLUTANT; EXHAUST GAS; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GENOA; GENOVA; ITALY; LIGURIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WORLD;

AIR POLLUTANTS; BENZO(A)PYRENE; CARCINOGENS; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; TRANSPORTATION; VEHICLE EMISSIONS;

EID: 4644303109     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2004.02.024     Document Type: Article

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