Familial Clusters of Green Tobacco Sickness

Journal of Agromedicine

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 51-59

  McKnight, Robert H ^a   Koetke, Carol A ^a   Donnelly, Carol ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agricultural poisoning; Clusters; Families; Green tobacco sickness; Poison center

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002705337     PISSN: 1059924X     EISSN: 15450813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J096v03n02_06     Document Type: Article

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