Reliability of using urinary and blood trichloroacetic acid as a biomarker of exposure to chlorinated drinking water disinfection byproducts

Biomarkers

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 355-365

  Zhang, Weiping ^a   Gabos, Stephan ^a   Schopflocher, Donald ^b   Li, Xing Fang ^b   Gati, Wendy P ^b   Hrudey, Steve E ^b  

^a Public Health Surveillance and Environmental Health   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biomarker; Disinfection byproducts; Exposure; Trichloroacetic acid

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; DRINKING WATER; TAP WATER; TRICHLOROACETIC ACID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BATH; BLOOD; BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHLORINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DISINFECTION; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; RELIABILITY; STEADY STATE; URINALYSIS; URINARY EXCRETION; URINE LEVEL;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; DISINFECTANTS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TRICHLOROACETIC ACID; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 70849117730     PISSN: 1354750X     EISSN: 13665804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13547500903079186     Document Type: Article

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