Original Contribution Pregnancy Outcomes, Infant Mortality, and Arsenic in Drinking Water in West Bengal, India
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1 School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA. 2 Institute for Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Kolkata, India. 3 Division of Environmental and Occupational Disease Control, California Department of Health Services, Oakland, CA. 4 Research and Evaluation, Kaiser Permanente Southern California, Pasadena, CA. 5 School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
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Pregnancy outcomes, infant mortality, and arsenic in drinking water in West Bengal, India.
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تاریخ انتشار 2005