Visual disturbances with cholinesterase depletion due to exposure of agricultural pesticides among farm workers

Toxicological and Environmental Chemistry

Volumn 94, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1601-1609

  Fareed, Mohammad ^a   Kesavachandran, Chandrasekharan Nair ^a   Pathak, Manoj Kumar ^a   Bihari, Vipin ^a   Kuddus, Mohammed ^b   Srivastava, Anup Kumar ^a  

^a CSIR INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TOXICOLOGY RESEARCH   (India)

^b INTEGRAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

cholinesterase depletion; ocular illness; pesticide exposure; unsafe work practices

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PESTICIDES; AGRICULTURAL WORKERS; CHOLINESTERASE ACTIVITY; CHOLINESTERASE DEPLETION; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EXPOSURE-TIME; FARM WORKERS; OCULAR ILLNESS; OCULAR SYMPTOMS; ORGANOPHOSPHATE PESTICIDES; PESTICIDE EXPOSURE; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEYS; SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS; WORK PRACTICES;

AGRICULTURE; RISK ASSESSMENT;

PESTICIDES;

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ENZYME ACTIVITY; MORBIDITY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; ORGANOPHOSPHATE; PESTICIDE RESIDUE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SYMPTOM;

EID: 84867210365     PISSN: 02772248     EISSN: 10290486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02772248.2012.718780     Document Type: Article

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