Mercury exposure and children's health

Current Problems in Pediatric and Adolescent Health Care

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 186-215

  Bose O'Reilly, Stephan ^a   McCarty, Kathleen M ^b   Steckling, Nadine ^a   Lettmeier, Beate ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY FOR HEALTH SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INORGANIC COMPOUND; MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY;

BIOACCUMULATION; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; BODY FLUID; CARDIOTOXICITY; CEREBELLUM DISEASE; CHILD HEALTH; CLINICAL FEATURE; CZECH REPUBLIC; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FECES ANALYSIS; FLUORESCENT LIGHTING; FOOD CHAIN; GENOTOXICITY; HAIR ANALYSIS; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HYGIENE; IMMUNOTOXICITY; INGESTION; INTOXICATION; LAND BIOME; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MERCURIALISM; MUTAGENESIS; NEPHROTOXICITY; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PEDIATRICIAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PLACENTAL TRANSFER; POLLUTANT; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKIN MANIFESTATION; TERATOGENICITY; TOXIC INHALATION; TREMOR MERCURIALIS; URINALYSIS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 77956593756     PISSN: 15385442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cppeds.2010.07.002     Document Type: Review

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