Health Risk Assessment of Heavy Metals in Urban Soil of Karachi, Pakistan

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 658-667

  Karim, Zahida ^a   Qureshi, Bilal Aslam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARACHI   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

children; exposure pathways; Karachi; metals; risk assessment; urban soil

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892982503     PISSN: 10807039     EISSN: 15497860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10807039.2013.791535     Document Type: Article

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