Abstinence monitoring of suspected drinking drivers: Ethyl glucuronide in hair versus CDT

Traffic Injury Prevention

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 123-126

  Liniger, Bruno ^a   Nguyen, Ariane ^a   Friedrich Koch, Andrea ^a   Yegles, Michel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

Author keywords

Abstinence monitoring; Alcohol abuse; Ethyl glucuronide; Fitness to drive; Hair analysis

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CARBOHYDRATE DEFICIENT TRANSFERRIN; CARBOHYDRATE-DEFICIENT TRANSFERRIN; DRUG DERIVATIVE; ETHYL GLUCURONIDE; GLUCURONIC ACID; TRANSFERRIN;

ARTICLE; BLOOD; CAR DRIVING; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HAIR; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMMUNOCHEMISTRY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUBSTANCE ABUSE;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; FEMALE; GLUCURONATES; HAIR; HUMANS; IMMUNOCHEMISTRY; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUBSTANCE ABUSE DETECTION; TRANSFERRIN;

EID: 77951173307     PISSN: 15389588     EISSN: 1538957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15389580903518280     Document Type: Article

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