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Bhajan Kumar Biswas
Researcher at Jadavpur University
Publications - 18
Citations - 3070
Bhajan Kumar Biswas is an academic researcher from Jadavpur University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Arsenic contamination of groundwater & Population. The author has an hindex of 16, co-authored 18 publications receiving 2795 citations.
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Groundwater arsenic contamination in Bangladesh and West Bengal, India.
Uttam Kumar Chowdhury,Bhajan Kumar Biswas,Tarit Roy Chowdhury,Gautam Samanta,Badal Kumar Mandal,Gautam C. Basu,C. R. Chanda,Dilip Lodh,Khitish Chandra Saha,Subhas K. Mukherjee,Sibtosh Roy,Saiful Kabir,Quazi Quamruzzaman,Dipankar Chakraborti +13 more
TL;DR: Thousands of hair, nail, and urine samples from people living in arsenic-affected villages have been analyzed to date; Bangladesh and West Bengal, 93 and 77% samples, on an average, contained arsenic above the normal/toxic level.
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Chronic Arsenic Toxicity in Bangladesh and West Bengal, India—A Review and Commentary
Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman,Uttam Kumar Chowdhury,Subhash Chandra Mukherjee,Badal Kumar Mondal,Kunal Paul,Dilip Lodh,Bhajan Kumar Biswas,C. R. Chanda,Gautam Kumar Basu,Kshitish Chandra Saha,Shibtosh Roy,Ranajit Das,Shyamal Kanti Palit,Quazi Quamruzzaman,Dipankar Chakraborti +14 more
TL;DR: Limited trials of 4 arsenic chelators in the treatment of chronic arsenic toxicity in West Bengal over the last 2 decades do not provide any clinical, biochemical, or histopathological benefit except for the accompanying preliminary report of clinical benefit with dimercaptopropanesulfonate therapy.
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Groundwater arsenic calamity in Bangladesh
R.K. Dhar,Bhajan Kumar Biswas,Gautum Samanta,Badal Kumar Mandal,Dipankar Chakraborti,Shibtosh Roy,Abu Jafar,Ariful Islam,Gulshan Ara,Saiful Kabir,A. Wadud Khan,S Akther Ahmed,S Abdul Hadi +12 more
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Arsenic poisoning in the Ganges delta
Tarit Roy Chowdhury,Gautam Kumar Basu,Badal Kumar Mandal,Bhajan Kumar Biswas,Gautam Samanta,Uttam Kumar Chowdhury,C. R. Chanda,Dilip Lodh,Sagar Lal Roy,Khitish Chandra Saha,Sibtosh Roy,Saiful Kabir,Qazi Quamruzzaman,Dipankar Chakraborti +13 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors have been studying the contamination of groundwater by arsenic and the attend-ant human suffering in West Bengal, India, for a decade, and in Bangladesh for the past four years.
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Status of groundwater arsenic contamination in the state of West Bengal, India: A 20‐year study report
Dipankar Chakraborti,Bhaskar Das,Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman,Uttam Kumar Chowdhury,Bhajan Kumar Biswas,Amlanjyoti Goswami,Bishwajit Nayak,Arup Pal,Mrinal Kumar Sengupta,Sad Ahamed,Amir Hossain,Goutam Basu,Tarit Roychowdhury,Dipankar Das +13 more
TL;DR: It is noted that arsenic concentration decreased with increasing depth, and was found in two tube wells in Kolkata for 325 and 51 days during 2002-2005, showed 15% oscillatory movement without any long-term trend.