The quality of drinking water in North Carolina farmworker camps

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 102, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Bischoff, Werner E ^a   Weir, Maria ^b   Summers, Phillip ^b   Chen, Haiying ^b   Quandt, Sara A ^b   Liebman, Amy K ^b   Arcury, Thomas A ^b  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIGRATION; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; STANDARD; UNITED STATES;

AGRICULTURE; DRINKING WATER; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMANS; NORTH CAROLINA; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84866308902     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2012.300738     Document Type: Article

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