Adverse health effects of pesticides in agrarian populations of developing countries

Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 200, Issue , 2009, Pages 33-52

  Kesavachandran, Chandrasekharan Nair ^b   Fareed, Mohammad ^b   Pathak, Manoj Kumar ^b   Bihari, Vipin ^b   Mathur, Neeraj ^b   Srivastava, Anup Kumar ^a  

^a CSIR INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TOXICOLOGY RESEARCH   (India)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PESTICIDE;

CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; HUMAN; INDIA; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; REVIEW;

AGRICULTURAL WORKERS' DISEASES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HUMANS; INDIA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PESTICIDES;

EID: 70349572946     PISSN: 01795953     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-0028-9_2     Document Type: Review

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