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In reply to: “Should we consider renaming ‘Mesoamerican Nephropathy’ as Nephropathy of Unknown Cause in Agricultural Labourers (NUCAL)?”

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  • Ramón García-Trabanino Centro de Hemodiálisis, San Salvador, El Salvador Emergency Social Fund for Health of Tierra Blanca, Tierra Blanca, El Salvador PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Kristina Jakobsson Section of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Goteborg, Sweden PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Carolina Guzmán Quilo Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Universidad de San Carlos, Guatemala, Guatemala PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Daniel R Brooks Department of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Jennifer Crowe Regional Institute for Studies on Toxic Substances (IRET), Program on Health, Work and Environment (SALTRA), Universidad Nacional, Heredia, Costa Rica PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Joaquín Barnoya Research Department, Cardiovascular Surgery Unit, Guatemala, Guatemala Division of Public Health Sciences, Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Magdalena Madero Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Instituto Nacional de Cardiologia Ignacio Chavez, Mexico city, Mexico PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Marvin González Quiroz Research Center on Health, Work and Environment (CISTA), National Autonomous University of Nicaragua at León (UNAN-León), León, Nicaragua Department of Non-communicable Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Catharina Wesseling Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • David H Wegman Department of Work Environment, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Ricardo Correa-Rotter Department of Nephrology and Mineral Metabolism, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición, Salvador Zubirán, Mexico city, Mexico PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Dr Ramón García-Trabanino, Calle Gabriela Mistral 211, 1101, San Salvador, El Salvador; rgt{at}anhaes.org
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García-Trabanino R, Jakobsson K, Guzmán Quilo C, et al
In reply to: “Should we consider renaming ‘Mesoamerican Nephropathy’ as Nephropathy of Unknown Cause in Agricultural Labourers (NUCAL)?”
Occupational and Environmental Medicine 2016;73:802-803.

Publication history

  • Received August 4, 2016
  • Accepted August 10, 2016
  • First published August 26, 2016.
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November 19, 2016

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