Environmental exposure to airborne asbestos fibres in a highly urbanized city

Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 121-128

  Krakowiak, Ewa ^a   Górny, Rafał L ^a   Cembrzyńska, Jolanta ^a   Sa̧kol, Gabriela ^a   Boissier Draghi, Marjorie ^b   Anczyk, Edmund ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Poland)

^b Department of Sustainable Development Energy Health and the Environment   (France)

Author keywords

Air contamination; Asbestos fibres; Asbestos containing materials; Environmental exposure; Monitoring

Indexed keywords

ASBESTOS FIBER; CHRYSOTILE; CROCIDOLITE;

AIR MONITORING; AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; BUILDING INDUSTRY; CORROSION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; URBANIZATION;

AIR POLLUTANTS; ASBESTOS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; URBANIZATION;

EID: 67650859671     PISSN: 12321966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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