HIV and hepatocellular and esophageal carcinomas related to consumption of mycotoxin-prone foods in sub-Saharan Africa

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 154-160

  Williams, Jonathan H ^a   Grubb, Jessica A ^a   Davis, Jerry W ^a   Wang, Jia Sheng ^b   Jolly, Pauline E ^c   Ankrah, Nii Ayi ^d   Ellis, William O ^e   Afriyie Gyawu, Evans ^f   Johnson, Natalie M ^g   Robinson, Abraham G ^g   Phillips, Timothy D ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^d University of Ghana   (Ghana)

^e KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Ghana)

^f GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFLATOXIN; FUMONISIN; MYCOTOXIN;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; MAIZE; MOSLEM; NONHUMAN; RICE; SOCIOECONOMICS; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENVIRONMENT; ESOPHAGUS TUMOR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD POISONING; LIVER TUMOR; MORTALITY; NEGRO; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ARACHIS HYPOGAEA; MANIHOT ESCULENTA; ZEA MAYS;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CAUSE OF DEATH; ENVIRONMENT; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FOOD HABITS; FOODBORNE DISEASES; FUMONISINS; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MORTALITY; MYCOTOXINS; ORYZA SATIVA; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 77954573853     PISSN: 00029165     EISSN: 19383207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3945/ajcn.2009.28761     Document Type: Article

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