Occupational health of animal workers

Human-Animal Medicine

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 343-371

  Mobo, Ben Hur P ^a   Rabinowitz, Peter M ^b   Conti, Lisa A ^c   Taiwo, Oyebode A ^b  

^a WHVAMC   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-1-4160-6837-2.00012-9     Document Type: Chapter

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