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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...
Autores principales: | Mensah, Ebenezer Kofi, Afari, Edwin, Wurapa, Frederick, Sackey, Samuel, Quainoo, Albert, Kenu, Ernest, Nyarko, Kofi Mensah |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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The African Field Epidemiology Network
2016
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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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