What was different about exposures reported by male Australian Gulf War veterans for the 1991 Persian Gulf War, compared with exposures reported for other deployments?

Military Medicine

Volumn 171, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 632-638

  Glass, Deborah C ^a   Sim, Malcolm R ^a   Kelsall, Helen L ^a   Ikin, Jill F ^a   McKenzie, Dean ^a   Forbes, Andrew ^a   Ittak, Peter ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CHEMICAL WARFARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUST EXPOSURE; GAS MASK; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MILITARY DEPLOYMENT; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF REPORT; SMOKE; WAR;

EID: 33745957172     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED.171.7.632     Document Type: Article

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