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Methylmercury exposure in a subsistence fishing community in Lake Chapala, Mexico: an ecological approach

Leonardo Trasande1,2, Juanita E Cortes3, Philip J Landrigan1,2, Mary I Abercrombie5, Richard F Bopp5 and Enrique Cifuentes1,4*

Author Affiliations

1 Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, 1 Gustave L Levy Place, Box 1057, New York, NY 10029, USA

2 Department of Pediatrics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, 1 Gustave L Levy Place, Box 1057, New York, NY 10029, USA

3 Instituto Mexicano de Tecnologia de Agua (Mexican Institute of Water Technology, IMTA), Paseo Cuauhnáhuac 8532, Colonia Progreso, CP 62550, Jiutepec, Morelos, México

4 Environmental Health Unit, Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica (National Institute of Public Health, INSP), Universidad No 655, Col Santa María Ahuacatitlán, Cerrada Los Pinos y Caminera, Cuernavaca, Morelos CP 62100, México

5 Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Jonsson-Rowland Science Center, 1W19, 110 8th Street, Troy, NY 12180, USA

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Environmental Health 2010, 9:1 doi:10.1186/1476-069X-9-1

Published: 11 January 2010

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Methodological Details of Mercury Analytic Methods. This file describes additional details regarding analytic methods for hair, sediment and filtered water samples collected in the present study. Quality assurance methods are also explained.

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