Iraq's biological weapons: The past as future?

JAMA

Volumn 278, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 418-424

  Zilinskas, Raymond A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BIOTECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFLATOXIN; BOTULINUM TOXIN;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; HUMAN; IRAQ; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WAR; WEAPON;

EID: 0030853307     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.278.5.418     Document Type: Article

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