Feasibility of hair sampling to assess levels of organophosphate metabolites in rural areas of Sri Lanka

Environmental Research

Volumn 147, Issue , 2016, Pages 207-211

  Knipe, D W ^a,b   Jayasumana, C ^c   Siribaddana, S ^c   Priyadarshana, C ^b   Pearson, M ^b,d   Gunnell, D ^a,b   Metcalfe, C ^a   Tzatzarakis, M N ^e   Tsatsakis, A M ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERADENIYA   (Sri Lanka)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOMBO   (Sri Lanka)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Chronic exposure; Dialkylphosphates metabolites; Hair; Pesticides; Sri Lanka

Indexed keywords

AZINPHOS METHYL; CHLORPYRIFOS; CHLORPYRIFOS METHYL; COUMAFOS; DICHLORVOS; DICROTOPHOS; DIETHYL DITHIOPHOSPHATE; DIETHYL PHOSPHATE; DIETHYL THIOPHOSPHATE; DIMETHOATE; DIMPYLATE; DISULFOTON; ETHION; FENITROTHION; FENTHION; MALATHION; METHIDATHION; METRIFONATE; MEVINPHOS; NALED; ORGANOPHOSPHATE PESTICIDE; PARATHION; PARATHION METHYL; PHORATE; PHOSALONE; PHOSMET; PHOSPHOROTRITHIOIC ACID TRIBUTYL ESTER; STIROFOS; TEMEFOS; TERBUFOS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ORGANOPHOSPHATE; PESTICIDE; POLLUTANT;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DATA ACQUISITION; HAIR; HEALTH RISK; METABOLITE; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS PESTICIDE; PESTICIDE RESIDUE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RURAL AREA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HAIR ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL AREA; SELF REPORT; SRI LANKA; ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HAIR; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; POLLUTANT; PROCEDURES; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

SRI LANKA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HAIR; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANOPHOSPHATES; PESTICIDES; RURAL POPULATION; SRI LANKA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84958150595     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2016.02.011     Document Type: Article

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