Occupational health hazards in sewage and sanitary workers

Indian Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 112-115

  Tiwari, Rajnarayan ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (India)

Author keywords

Sanitary workers; Sewage workers

Indexed keywords

EID: 58149127452     PISSN: 09732284     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0019-5278.44691     Document Type: Review

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