Mortality in workers in poultry slaughtering/processing plants: The Missouri poultry cohort study

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 60, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 784-788

  Netto, G F ^a   Johnson, E S ^a  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; NORMAL HUMAN; POULTRY FARMING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SENILITY; SEX RATIO; SLAUGHTERHOUSE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UNITED STATES; WORKER;

ABATTOIRS; ANIMALS; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MISSOURI; NEOPLASMS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POULTRY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX FACTORS; VIRUS DISEASES;

GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 0141525195     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.60.10.784     Document Type: Article

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