Abnormalities on neurological examination among sheep farmers exposed to organophosphorous pesticides

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 520-525

  Beach, Jeremy R ^a   Spurgeon, Anne ^a   Stephens, Richard ^a   Heafield, Tom ^a   Calvert, Ian A ^a   Levy, Leonard S ^a   Harrington, J Malcolm ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

neurological examination; organophosphates; sheep farmers

Indexed keywords

ORGANOPHOSPHATE PESTICIDE;

ADULT; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SHEEP; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION;

OVIS ARIES;

EID: 0029780101     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.53.8.520     Document Type: Article

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