Arsenic levels in tube-wells water, food, residents' urine and the prevalence of skin lesions in Yatenga province, Burkina Faso

Interdisciplinary Toxicology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 38-41

  Somé, Issa T ^a   Sakira, Abdoul K ^a   Ouédraogo, Moustapha ^a   Ouédraogo, Theodore Z ^a   Traoré, Adama ^b   Sondo, Blaise ^a   Guissou, Pierre I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE OUAGADOUGOU   (Burkina Faso)

^b CENTRE HOSPITALIER UNIVERSITAIRE YALGADO OUÉDRAOGO   (Burkina Faso)

Author keywords

arsenic; poisoning; skin lesion; water

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; WELL WATER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARSENIC POISONING; ARTICLE; BURKINA FASO; CABBAGE; CHILD; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; INFANT; KERATOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOSIS; NEWBORN; POTATO; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; SCHOOL CHILD; TOMATO; URINE LEVEL; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SAMPLING;

LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 84861076125     PISSN: 13376853     EISSN: 13379569     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/v10102-012-0007-4     Document Type: Article

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