Aluminum phosphide fatalities, new local experience

Medicine, Science and the Law

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 164-168

  Abder Rahman, H A ^a   Battah, A H ^a   Ibraheem, Y M ^a   Shomaf, M S ^a   El Batainch, N ^a  

^a THE UNIVERSITY OF JORDAN   (Jordan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM DERIVATIVE; ALUMINUM PHOSPHIDE; PESTICIDE; PHOSPHINE DERIVATIVE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTOXICATION; JORDAN; MALE; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; JORDAN; MALE; PESTICIDES; PHOSPHINES; POISONING;

EID: 0034168694     PISSN: 00258024     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/002580240004000214     Document Type: Article

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