Occupational Diseases and Environmental Medicine

Vol.2 No.3(2014), Paper ID 48900, 15 pages

DOI:10.4236/odem.2014.23007

 

Pesticide-Handling Practices in Agriculture in El Salvador: An Example from 42 Patient Farmers with Chronic Kidney Disease in the Bajo Lempa Region

 

Roberto Mejía, Edgar Quinteros, Alejandro López, Alexandre Ribó, Humberto Cedillos, Carlos M. Orantes, Eliette Valladares, Dina L. López

 

National Institute of Health, Ministry of Health of El Salvador, San Salvador, El Salvador
National Institute of Health, Ministry of Health of El Salvador, San Salvador, El Salvador
National Institute of Health, Ministry of Health of El Salvador, San Salvador, El Salvador
National Institute of Health, Ministry of Health of El Salvador, San Salvador, El Salvador
University of El Salvador, San Salvador, El Salvador
National Institute of Health, Ministry of Health of El Salvador, San Salvador, El Salvador
National Institute of Health, Ministry of Health of El Salvador, San Salvador, El Salvador
Department of Geological Sciences, Ohio University, Athens, OH, USA

 

Copyright © 2014 Roberto Mejía, Edgar Quinteros, Alejandro López, Alexandre Ribó, Humberto Cedillos, Carlos M. Orantes, Eliette Valladares, Dina L. López et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

 

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Mejía, R. , Quinteros, E. , López, A. , Ribó, A. , Cedillos, H. , Orantes, C. , Valladares, E. and López, D. (2014) Pesticide-Handling Practices in Agriculture in El Salvador: An Example from 42 Patient Farmers with Chronic Kidney Disease in the Bajo Lempa Region. Occupational Diseases and Environmental Medicine, 2, 56-70. doi: 10.4236/odem.2014.23007.

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