Acute infections and environmental exposure to organochlorines in Inuit infants from Nunavik

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 112, Issue 14, 2004, Pages 1359-1364

  Dallaire, Frédéric ^a   Dewailly, Éric ^a,c   Muckle, Gina ^a   Vézina, Carole ^a   Jacobson, Sandra W ^b   Jacobson, Joseph L ^b   Ayotte, Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Public Health Research Unit   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cord blood; Environmental health; Gastrointestinal infections; Human; Infant; Infections; Inuit; Organochlorines; Otitis; Pesticides; Polychlorinated biphenyls; Prenatal exposure; Respiratory tract infections

Indexed keywords

1,1 DICHLORO 2,2 BIS(4 CHLOROPHENYL)ETHYLENE; ORGANOCHLORINE DERIVATIVE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL DERIVATIVE;

BLOOD ANALYSIS; CANADA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELIVERY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ESKIMO; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOTOXICITY; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFECTION; INFECTION RATE; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL PLASMA; MEDICAL RECORD; OTITIS MEDIA; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; DICHLORODIPHENYL DICHLOROETHYLENE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INSECTICIDES; INUITS; MALE; OTITIS MEDIA; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; QUEBEC; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 6344257150     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.7255     Document Type: Review

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