Arsenic exposure assessment of children living in a lead mining area in Southeastern Brazil;Avaliação da exposição de crianças ao arsênio em área de mineração de chumbo na Região Sudeste do Brasil

Cadernos de Saude Publica

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 391-398

  Sakuma, Alice Momoyo ^a   de Capitani, Eduardo Mello ^b   Figueiredo, Bernardino Ribeiro ^b   de Maio, Franca Durante ^a   Paoliello, Monica Maria Bastos ^c   da Cunha, Fernanda Gonçalves ^d   Duran, Maria Cristina ^a  

^a INSTITUTO ADOLFO LUTZ   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF LONDRINA   (Brazil)

^d Companhia de Pesquisa de Recursos Minerais   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Arsenic poisoning; Environmental exposure; Mining

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951074299     PISSN: 0102311X     EISSN: 16784464     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0102-311X2010000200018     Document Type: Article

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