In utero pesticide exposure and leukemia in Brazilian children < 2 years of age

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 121, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 269-275

  Ferreira, Jeniffer Dantas ^a   Couto, Arnaldo Cézar ^a   Pombo de Oliveira, Maria S ^b   Koifman, Sergio ^a  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE CÂNCER   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Childhood cancer; Infant leukemia; Lactation; Pesticides; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ALLETHRIN; ORGANOPHOSPHATE; PERMETHRIN; PESTICIDE; PHENOTHRIN; TETRAMETHRIN;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE LEUKEMIA; ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; BREAST FEEDING; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ETHICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; NOTE; PREGNANCY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SKIN COLOR;

EID: 84873398363     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1103942     Document Type: Note

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