Geophagy practices and the content of chemical elements in the soil eaten by pregnant women in artisanal and small scale gold mining communities in Tanzania

BACKGROUND: Geophagy, a form of pica, is the deliberate consumption of soil and is relatively common across Sub-Saharan Africa. In Tanzania, pregnant women commonly eat soil sticks sold in the market (pemba), soil from walls of houses, termite mounds, and ground soil (kichuguu). The present study ex...

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Autores principales: Nyanza, Elias C, Joseph, Mary, Premji, Shahirose S, Thomas, Deborah SK, Mannion, Cynthia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3997190/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24731450
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2393-14-144

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