Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in residential dust: Sources of variability

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 121, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 543-550

  Whitehead, Todd P ^a   Metayer, Catherine ^a   Petreas, Myrto ^b   Does, Monique ^a   Buffler, Patricia A ^a   Rappaport, Stephen M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Environmental Chemistry Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental exposures; House dust; Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons

Indexed keywords

POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DUST EXPOSURE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING;

DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HOUSING; HUMANS; POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; QUALITY CONTROL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84877033093     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1205821     Document Type: Article

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