TY  - CHAP
M1  - Book, Section
TI  - Biologic Monitoring
A1  - Das, Rupali
A2  - LaDou, Joseph
A2  - Harrison, Robert J.
PY  - 2013
T2  - CURRENT Diagnosis & Treatment:  Occupational & Environmental Medicine, 5e
AB  - Biologic  monitoring  or  biomonitoring  is  the  measurement  of  a  chemical,  its  metabolite,  or  a  biochemical  effect  in  a  biologic  specimen  for  the  purpose  of  assessing  exposure.  The  term  biomonitoring  may  be  used  for  measuring  chemicals  in  nonhuman  organisms,  forensic  medicine,  and  drug  development;  in  this  chapter  it  refers  to  human  exposure  monitoring.  Biomonitoring  is  an  important  tool  to  identify  the  nature  and  amount  of  chemicals  in  the  body  resulting  from  occupational  and  environmental  exposures.  Biologic  monitoring  has  evolved  from  a  research  tool  to  an  essential  component  of  exposure  assessment.  Although  biomonitoring  has  been  used  to  monitor  workers  for  decades,  it  is  increasingly  being  applied  to  nonoccupational  settings.  
SN  - 
PB  - McGraw-Hill Education
CY  - New York, NY
Y2  - 2024/04/16
UR  - accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1104108146
ER  -