UK childhood exposures to pesticides 2004-2007: A TOXBASE toxicovigilance study

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 94, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 417-420

  Adams, Richard D ^a   Lupton, D ^a   Good, A M ^a   Bateman, D N ^a  

^a ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PESTICIDE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONJUNCTIVITIS; DATA BASE; DIARRHEA; EYE IRRITATION; EYE PAIN; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFANT; INFORMATION SYSTEM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAUSEA; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SKIN IRRITATION; THROAT IRRITATION; UNITED KINGDOM; VOMITING;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EYE INJURIES; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PESTICIDES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SAFETY MANAGEMENT; SKIN DISEASES; VOMITING;

EID: 66749170252     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2008.144972     Document Type: Article

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