Hearing thresholds of workers in a printing facility

Environmental Research

Volumn 73, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 189-192

  Farahat, T M ^a   Abdel Rasoul, G M ^a   El Assy, A R ^a   Kandil, S H ^a   Kabil, M K ^a  

^a MENOUFIA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEAD;

AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYGIENE; LEAD BLOOD LEVEL; LEAD POISONING; NOISE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PARTICLE SIZE; PRINTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0031127463     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/enrs.1997.3700     Document Type: Conference Paper

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