Aerial Application of Mancozeb and Urinary Ethylene Thiourea (ETU) Concentrations among Pregnant Women in Costa Rica: The Infants’ Environmental Health Study (ISA) (Environmental Health Perspectives, 122, (2014), (1323-1328), 10.1289/ehp.1307679);Aerial application of mancozeb and urinary ethylene thiourea (ETU) concentrations among pregnant women in Costa Rica: The infants’ environmental health study (ISA)

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 122, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1321-1328

  van Wendel de Joode, Berna ^a   Mora, Ana María ^a,b   Córdoba, Leonel ^a   Cano, Juan Camilo ^a   Quesada, Rosario ^a   Faniband, Moosa ^c   Wesseling, Catharina ^a   Ruepert, Clemens ^a   Öberg, Mattias ^d   Eskenazi, Brenda ^b   Mergler, Donna ^e   Lindh, Christian H ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL   (Costa Rica)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 IMIDAZOLIDINETHIONE; MANCOZEB; AIR POLLUTANT; FUNGICIDE; MANEB; ZINEB;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; BANANA; FEMALE; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; HUMAN; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PLANTATION; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URINALYSIS; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AIR POLLUTANT; COSTA RICA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GESTATIONAL AGE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGRICULTURE; AIR POLLUTANTS; COSTA RICA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ETHYLENETHIOUREA; FEMALE; FUNGICIDES, INDUSTRIAL; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; MANEB; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; ZINEB;

EID: 84936802576     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.122-A321     Document Type: Erratum

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