First reported outbreak of green tobacco sickness in Brazil;Primeiro relato do surto da doença da folha verde do tabaco no Brasil

Cadernos de Saude Publica

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2263-2269

  de Oliveira, Patricia Pereira Vasconcelos ^a   Sihler, Camila Brederode ^a   de Moura, Lenildo ^a   Malta, Deborah Carvalho ^a   Torres, Maria Célia de Albuquerque ^a   Lima, Sandra Márcia Costa Pereira ^a   de Lima, Ana Lucia Alves ^a   Leite, Carlos Eduardo ^b   da Costa e Silva, Vera Luiza ^c   Sobel, Jeremy ^a   Lanzieri, Tatiana Miranda ^a  

^a Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul ^*

^b PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^c Organização Pan Americana da Saúde Organização Mundial da Saúde OPAS OMS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Nicotine; Occupational diseases; Tobacco

Indexed keywords

EID: 79251559436     PISSN: 0102311X     EISSN: 16784464     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0102-311X2010001200005     Document Type: Article

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