The good, the bad, and the volatile: Can we have both healthy pools and healthy people?

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 3205-3210

  Lakind, Judy S ^a   Richardson, Susan D ^b   Blount, Benjamin C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE; DISINFECTANT AGENT; VOLATILE AGENT;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; BIOMONITORING; CANCER; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; DISINFECTION; HEALTH RISK; PATHOGEN; RECREATIONAL ACTIVITY; RESPIRATORY DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; SWIMMING; WATER CHEMISTRY;

ALLERGY; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; DISINFECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; INFECTION; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION; REVIEW; SWIMMING; SWIMMING POOL; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER TREATMENT;

CHLORINE; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DISINFECTANTS; DISINFECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FRESH WATER; HUMANS; SWIMMING; SWIMMING POOLS; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL;

EID: 77951773137     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es903241k     Document Type: Review

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