Pesticides and Related Compounds

Textbook of Clinical Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1099-1126

  Keifer, Matthew C ^a   Wesseling, Catharina ^b   McConnell, Rob ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL   (Costa Rica)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-7216-8974-6.50052-X     Document Type: Chapter

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