A prospective cohort study of school-going children investigating reproductive and neurobehavioral health effects due to environmental pesticide exposure in the Western Cape, South Africa: study protocol

• Main Authors: Shala Chetty-Mhlanga (Author), Wisdom Basera (Author), Samuel Fuhrimann (Author), Nicole Probst-Hensch (Author), Steven Delport (Author), Mufaro Mugari (Author), Jennifer Van Wyk (Author), Martin Röösli (Author), Mohamed Aqiel Dalvie (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2018-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Research on reproductive health effects on children from low-level, long-term exposure to pesticides currently used in the agricultural industry is limited and those on neurobehavioral effects have produced conflicting evidence. We aim at investigating the association between pes...