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Potential Co-exposure to Arsenic and Fluoride and Biomonitoring Equivalents for Mexican Children

Annals of Global Health
Volume 84 (2018): Issue 2
By: Jorge H. Limón-Pacheco,  Mónica I. Jiménez-Córdova,  Mariana Cárdenas-González,  Ilse M. Sánchez Retana,  María E. Gonsebatt and  Luz M. Del Razo  
Open Access
|Jul 2018

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