Swimming pools and asthma: A new risk or premature concern?

Contemporary Nurse

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Downing, Laura ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE; DISINFECTANT AGENT;

ARTICLE; ASTHMA; HUMAN; SWIMMING; SWIMMING POOL;

ASTHMA; CHLORINE; DISINFECTANTS; HUMANS; SWIMMING; SWIMMING POOLS;

EID: 79953058714     PISSN: 10376178     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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