A tracer gas evaluation at a garment manufacturing facility with extensive transmission of tuberculosis

Applied Occupational and Environmental Hygiene

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 335-342

  Seitz, Teresa ^a   Mortimer, Vince ^a   Martinez, Kenneth ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SULFUR HEXAFLUORIDE; TRACER;

AIRFLOW; ARTICLE; HUMAN; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROOM VENTILATION; TEXTILE INDUSTRY; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 7144263745     PISSN: 1047322X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1047322X.1998.10389554     Document Type: Note

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