Working upstream: How far can you go with sewage-based drug epidemiology?

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1362-1368

  Burgard, Daniel A ^a   Banta Green, Caleb ^b   Field, Jennifer A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEWAGE; STREET DRUG;

AUSTRALIA; CHEMISTRY; DEVICES; ECOLOGY; EUROPE; HUMAN; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; METABOLISM; NORTH AMERICA; PROCEDURES; SEWAGE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

AUSTRALIA; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; ECOLOGY; EUROPE; HUMANS; NORTH AMERICA; SEWAGE; STREET DRUGS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 84893619838     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es4044648     Document Type: Article

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