Sources of exposure to storage mites in the farming environment

Annals of Agriculture and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 9-12

  Hallas, Thorkil E ^a,c   Iversen, Martin ^b  

^a DANISH TECHNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^c NONE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Acarus; Allergy; Ecology; Exposure; Farming; Glycyphagus; Lepidoglyphus; Storage mites; Tyrophagus

Indexed keywords

EID: 2842593934     PISSN: 12321966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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