Arsenic exposure to rural population in Bangladesh

Arsenic in Geosphere and Human Diseases, As 2010 - 3rd International Congress: Arsenic in the Environment

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 286-287

  Islam, A B M R ^a,b   Sarker, M M R ^c   Ahmad, S A ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b ITO Public Nuisance Research Institute   (Japan)

^c SHER E BANGLA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Bangladesh)

^d Department of Occupational and Environmental Health ^*  (Bangladesh)

^e National Institute of Preventive and Social Medicine   (Bangladesh)

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