Lead poisoning in United States-bound refugee children: Thailand-Burma border, 2009.

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Published in Pediatrics on January 16, 2012

Authors

Tarissa Mitchell1, Emily Jentes, Luis Ortega, Marissa Scalia Sucosky, Taran Jefferies, Predrag Bajcevic, Valentina Parr, Warren Jones, Mary Jean Brown, John Painter

Author Affiliations

1: Division of Global Migration, Immigrant, Refugee, and Migrant Health Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA. tmitchell1@cdc.gov

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