Agricultural and horticultural chemical poisonings: Mortality and morbidity in the United States

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 232-238

  Klein Schwartz, W ^a   Smith, G S ^a  

^a Maryland Poison Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL CHEMICAL; INSECTICIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTOXICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PARAQUAT POISONING; PESTICIDE SPRAYING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUICIDE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0031018320     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0196-0644(97)70274-9     Document Type: Article

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