Current progress on understanding the impact of mercury on human health

Environmental Research

Volumn 152, Issue , 2017, Pages 419-433

  Ha, Eunhee ^a   Basu, Niladri ^b   Bose O'Reilly, Stephan ^c,d   Dórea, José G ^e   McSorley, Emeir ^f   Sakamoto, Mineshi ^g   Chan, Hing Man ^h  

^a Ewha Womans University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY FOR HEALTH SCIENCES   (Austria)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^g NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MINAMATA DISEASE   (Japan)

^h UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Advisory; Critical review; Environmental exposure; Environmental pollutants; Health; Humans; Mercury; Methylmercury; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

ETHYLMERCURY DERIVATIVE; GOLD; MERCURY; THIOMERSAL; VACCINE; MERCURY DERIVATIVE;

BIOMONITORING; HEALTH RISK; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEM; LITERATURE REVIEW; MERCURY (ELEMENT); METHYLMERCURY; POLICY MAKING; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESEARCH WORK; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOXICITY;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GENETICS; HEALTH; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; KOREA; MINER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; HEALTH STATUS;

KOREA;

ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MERCURY; MERCURY COMPOUNDS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84999054872     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2016.06.042     Document Type: Article

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