Geophagy and potential health implications: Geohelminths, microbes and heavy metals

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 104, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 787-795

  Kutalek, Ruth ^a   Wewalka, Guenther ^b   Gundacker, Claudia ^a,c   Auer, Herbert ^d   Wilson, Jeff ^e   Haluza, Daniela ^a   Huhulescu, Steliana ^b   Hillier, Stephen ^e   Sager, Manfred ^b   Prinz, Armin ^a  

^a Medical University of Vienna and Wiener Werkstaette for Suicide Research   (Austria)

^b AUSTRIAN AGENCY FOR HEALTH AND FOOD SAFETY   (Austria)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^e SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Africa; Geophagy; Heavy metals; Microbes; Parasites; Soil

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; HEAVY METAL; LEAD; MERCURY;

ACINETOBACTER; ACREMONIUM; AFRICA; ALTERNARIA; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; BACILLUS; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; CANDIDA; CENTRAL AFRICA; CHRYSONILIA; CLADOSPORIUM; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; CORYNEBACTERIUM; EGG; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; EUROPE; FUNGAL CONTAMINATION; FUNGUS; HELMINTH; MICROCOCCUS; MICROORGANISM; NIGROSPORA; NONHUMAN; PAECILOMYCES; PENICILLIUM; PSEUDOMONAS; RHIZOPUS; RISK; SCEDOSPORIUM; SOIL; STREPTOMYCES; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ANIMALS; ASCARIASIS; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; EUROPE; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; METALS, HEAVY; PICA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RISK FACTORS; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

FUNGI; VERMES;

EID: 78349311141     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2010.09.002     Document Type: Article

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