Infant lead poisoning associated with use of tiro, an eye cosmetic from Nigeria - Boston, Massachusetts, 2011

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

Volumn 61, Issue 30, 2012, Pages 574-576

  Nasidi, Abdulsalami ^a   Karwowski, Mateusz ^b   Woolf, Alan ^b   Kellogg, Mark ^c   Law, Terence ^c   Sucosky, Marissa Scalia ^d   Glass Pue, Rose M ^d   Brown, Mary Jean ^d   Behbod, Behrooz ^e  

^a NIGERIA CENTRE FOR DISEASE CONTROL   (Nigeria)

^b Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit   (United States)

^c BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^e CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSMETIC; LEAD;

ARTICLE; BLOOD; CASE REPORT; CHEMISTRY; EYE; HUMAN; INFANT; LEAD POISONING; MALE; MIGRATION; NIGERIA; PATIENT EDUCATION; UNITED STATES;

BOSTON; COSMETICS; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; EYE; HUMANS; INFANT; LEAD; LEAD POISONING; MALE; NIGERIA; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC;

EID: 84865036787     PISSN: 01492195     EISSN: 1545861X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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