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Environmental exposure to uranium in a population living in close proximity to gold mine tailings in South Africa
BACKGROUND: Gold mining activities in South Africa resulted in contamination of residential environment with uranium-rich wastes from mine tailings. Health of the people living around the mine tailings could be affected by uranium exposure due to its hazardous chemotoxic and radiological properties....
Autores principales: | Zupunski, Ljubica, Street, Renée, Ostroumova, Evgenia, Winde, Frank, Sachs, Susanne, Geipel, Gerhard, Nkosi, Vusumuzi, Bouaoun, Liacine, Haman, Tanya, Schüz, Joachim, Mathee, Angela |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Gustav Fisher
2023
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10030373/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36857995 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jtemb.2023.127141 |
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