Exposure of Small-Scale Gold Miners in Prestea to Mercury, Ghana, 2012

INTRODUCTION: Small-scale gold miners in Ghana have been using mercury to amalgamate gold for many years. Mercury is toxic even at low concentration. We assessed occupational exposure of small-scale gold miners to mercury in Prestea, a gold mining town in Ghana. METHODS: We conducted a cross-section...

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Autores principales: Mensah, Ebenezer Kofi, Afari, Edwin, Wurapa, Frederick, Sackey, Samuel, Quainoo, Albert, Kenu, Ernest, Nyarko, Kofi Mensah
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2016
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5292116/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28210374
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.supp.2016.25.1.6171

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5292116/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28210374
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.supp.2016.25.1.6171

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