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Environmental Pollution
Known as:
Pollution, Environmental
, contamination environmental
, environmental contamination
Contamination of the air, bodies of water, or land with substances that are harmful to human health and the environment.
National Institutes of Health
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2009
2009
Hospital surface contamination in wards occupied by patients infected with MRSA or MSSA in a Brazilian university hospital
K. S. Carvalho
,
M. C. Melo
,
G. Melo
,
P. P. Gontijo-Filho
2009
Corpus ID: 68166238
The hospital environment, especially surfaces, represents a secondary reservoir for pathogens such as Staphylococcus aureus . The…
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Review
2006
Review
2006
Review of Roberto Bargagli, Ecological Studies 175: Antarctic ecosystems - environmental contamination, climate change and human impact, Springer-Verlag, 2005
P. Convey
2006
Corpus ID: 129825801
2004
2004
Impact of Environmental Pollution on Health: Balancing Risk
D. Briggs
,
M. Joffe
,
P. Elliott
2004
Corpus ID: 127412507
Global burden of environmental disease Methods used to determine environmental health effects - critical assessment of implied…
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Review
2000
Review
2000
Current risk assessment approaches in different countries
J. C. Larsen
,
W. Farland
,
Dwain L. Winters
Food Additives and Contaminants
2000
Corpus ID: 28291240
Polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDDs), dibenzofurans (PCDFs) and biphenyls (PCBs) exist as complex mixtures in environmental…
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1999
1999
Changing consumer water-use patterns and their effect on microbiological water quality as a result of an engineering intervention
P. Jagals
,
T. Bokako
,
W. Grabow
1999
Corpus ID: 17358107
A previous study done during 1994-1995 in a section of a large, low socio-economic urban development with limited sanitary…
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1994
1994
DNA damage in marine mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis as a biomarker of environmental contamination
M. Vukmirovic
,
N. Bihari
,
R. Zahn
,
Weg Müller
,
R. Batel
1994
Corpus ID: 43779788
Primary DNA damage (single-strand breaks and crosslinks) was measured in haemolymph of n~ussel Mytilus galloprovincialis using…
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1984
1984
Outbreak of JK diphtheroid infections associated with environmental contamination
P. John
,
Quinn
,
+4 authors
Rosenbluth
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
1984
Corpus ID: 39065863
The group JK diphtheroid organism is a multiply resistant opportunistic pathogen which infects immunocompromised patients…
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1981
1981
A wire reclamation incinerator as a source of environmental contamination with tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxins and tetrachlorodibenzofurans.
D. Hryhorczuk
,
W. Withrow
,
C. S. Hesse
,
V. Beasley
Archives of Environmental Health An International…
1981
Corpus ID: 33325042
The authors investigated an outbreaks of unusual illnesses in humans and horses residing within 1.3 km of a wire reclamation…
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Review
1976
Review
1976
Screening by negative chemical ionization mass spectrometry for environmental contamination with toxic residues: Application to human urines.
R. Dougherty
,
K. Piotrowska
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…
1976
Corpus ID: 40257966
A screening procedure based on solvent extraction with minimal clean up followed by examination with negative chemical ionization…
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1967
Review
1967
Bio-assays for microchemical environmental contaminants, with special reference to water supplies.
R. Warner
Bulletin of the World Health Organization
1967
Corpus ID: 6525649
A solution of the problem of environmental contamination must be based on accurate measurement of the extent of the contamination…
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