Arsenic levels in drinking water and the prevalence of skin lesions in West Bengal, India.

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Published in Int J Epidemiol on October 01, 1998

Authors

D N Guha Mazumder1, R Haque, N Ghosh, B K De, A Santra, D Chakraborty, A H Smith

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1: Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research, Calcutta, India.

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