Re: "Water disinfection by-products and prelabor rupture of membranes"

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 169, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 122-123

  Heitz, Anna ^a   Kristiana, Ina ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER; NITRATE;

CHLORINATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CORRELATIONAL STUDY; FLOW INJECTION ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LETTER; MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PREGNANCY; RETICULOENDOTHELIAL SYSTEM; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SUPPLY; WATER TREATMENT;

CHLORAMINES; DISINFECTANTS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FETAL MEMBRANES, PREMATURE RUPTURE; HUMANS; NITRATES; PREGNANCY; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER PURIFICATION; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 58149252267     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwn377     Document Type: Letter

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