Groundwater arsenic contamination in Bangladesh-21 Years of research

Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 31, Issue , 2015, Pages 237-248

  Chakraborti, Dipankar ^a   Rahman, Mohammad Mahmudur ^a,b   Mukherjee, Amitava ^a,c   Alauddin, Mohammad ^d   Hassan, Manzurul ^e   Dutta, Rathindra Nath ^f   Pati, Shymapada ^g   Mukherjee, Subhash Chandra ^g   Roy, Shibtosh ^h   Quamruzzman, Quazi ^h   Rahman, Mahmuder ^h   Morshed, Salim ^h   Islam, Tanzima ^h   Sorif, Shaharir ^h   Selim, M ^h   Islam, Md Razaul ^h   Hossain, Md Monower ^h  

^a JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c VIT UNIVERSITY   (India)

^d WAGNER COLLEGE   (United States)

^e JAHANGIRNAGAR UNIVERSITY   (Bangladesh)

^f INSTITUTE OF POST GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

^g MEDICAL COLLEGE AND HOSPITAL   (India)

^h Dhaka Community Hospital   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Biological samples; Groundwater; Health effects; Managing risk

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC ACID; ARSENIC DERIVATIVE; ARSENIC TRIOXIDE; DIMETHYL ARSENIC ACID; GROUND WATER; MONOMETHYL ARSENIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ARSENIC; DRINKING WATER; WATER POLLUTANT;

ARSENIC POISONING; ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; BOWEN DISEASE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CAUSE OF DEATH; COASTAL WATERS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FLOODPLAIN; GENOTOXICITY; HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; LEUCOMELANOSIS; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MELANOSIS; NEUROPATHY; PALMOPLANTAR KERATODERMA; POPULATION EXPOSURE; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN DEFECT; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER QUALITY; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PUBLIC HEALTH; RURAL POPULATION; TRENDS; URINE; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER POLLUTION;

ARSENIC; BANGLADESH; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; DRINKING WATER; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GROUNDWATER; HUMANS; PUBLIC HEALTH; RURAL POPULATION; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 84929653073     PISSN: 0946672X     EISSN: 18783252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtemb.2015.01.003     Document Type: Article

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