Effect of pesticide residues on health and blood parameters of farm workers from rural Gadap, Karachi, Pakistan

Journal of Environmental Biology

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 747-756

  Azmi, M Ahmed ^a   Naqvi, S N H ^a   Akhtar, Kehkashan ^a   Moinuddin, ^a   Parveen, Shahida ^a   Parveen, Rehana ^a   Aslam, M ^a  

^a BAQAI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Blood parameters; Health; Pesticides; Residues

Indexed keywords

1,1 DICHLORO 2,2 BIS(4 CHLOROPHENYL)ETHYLENE; CHLORPHENOTANE; CIPERMETHRIN; DELTAMETHRIN; DIMPYLATE; HEMOGLOBIN; MONOCROTOPHOS; PESTICIDE RESIDUE;

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; BLOOD; FRUIT; HEALTH IMPACT; ORCHARD; PESTICIDE RESIDUE; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RURAL AREA; SKIN; VEGETABLE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; FEMALE; HEALTH HAZARD; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MEAN CORPUSCULAR HEMOGLOBIN; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; MONOCYTE; NEUTROPHIL; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PESTICIDE SPRAYING; THROMBOCYTE COUNT;

ASIA; EURASIA; KARACHI; PAKISTAN; SIND; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 70349558361     PISSN: 02548704     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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