Strategies for the prevention of a successful biological warfare aerosol attack

Military Medicine

Volumn 161, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 251-256

  Wiener, Stanley L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^b MACNEAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; GAS MASK; HUMAN; SOLDIER; ULTRAFILTRATION; WAR;

EID: 0029983646     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/milmed/161.5.251     Document Type: Article

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