Soil selenium concentration and Kashin-Beck disease prevalence in Tibet, China

Frontiers of Environmental Science and Engineering in China

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 62-68

  Li, Shunjiang ^a,b   Li, Wei ^a   Hu, Xia ^a   Yang, Linsheng ^b   Xirao, Ruodeng ^c  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c Tibet Municipality Centers for Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

Author keywords

Kashin Beck disease (KBD); Selenium (Se); Soil; Tibet

Indexed keywords

EID: 62249090229     PISSN: 16737415     EISSN: 16737520     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11783-009-0009-4     Document Type: Article

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