Human exposure assessment of indoor dust: Importance of particle size and spatial position

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 121, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Cao, Zhiguo ^a   Yu, Gang ^a   Wang, Bin ^a   Huang, Jun ^a   Deng, Shubo ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER; DIPHENYL ETHER DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; DUST EXPOSURE; HOUSE DUST; HUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; BLOOD; DUST; FEMALE; MALE; NOTE;

DUST; FEMALE; HALOGENATED DIPHENYL ETHERS; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 84875899247     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1206470     Document Type: Article

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