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Petroleum contaminated water and health symptoms: a cross-sectional pilot study in a rural Nigerian community

BACKGROUND: The oil-rich Niger Delta suffers from extensive petroleum contamination. A pilot study was conducted in the region of Ogoniland where one community, Ogale, has drinking water wells highly contaminated with a refined oil product. In a 2011 study, the United Nations Environment Programme (...

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Autores principales: Kponee, Kalé Zainab, Chiger, Andrea, Kakulu, Iyenemi Ibimina, Vorhees, Donna, Heiger-Bernays, Wendy
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4636824/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26546277
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12940-015-0073-0