Personal exposures to fine particulate matter and black carbon in households cooking with biomass fuels in rural Ghana.

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Published in Environ Res on October 28, 2013

Authors

Eleanne D S Van Vliet1, Kwakupoku Asante, Darby W Jack, Patrick L Kinney, Robin M Whyatt, Steven N Chillrud, Livesy Abokyi, Charles Zandoh, Seth Owusu-Agyei

Author Affiliations

1: Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, 722 West 168th Street, 11th Floor, Room 1104E, New York, NY, USA. Electronic address: ev2117@columbia.edu.

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