National assessment of capacity in public health, environmental, and agricultural laboratories - United states, 2011

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

Volumn 62, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 161-164

  Boulton, Matthew L ^a   Beck, Angela J ^a   DeBoy, John M ^b   Kim, Deborah H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b MARYLAND DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE   (United States)

^c MPH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; EDUCATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LABORATORY; MANPOWER; PUBLIC HEALTH; RETIREMENT; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

AGRICULTURE; DATA COLLECTION; EDUCATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; LABORATORIES; PUBLIC HEALTH; RETIREMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84874881195     PISSN: 01492195     EISSN: 1545861X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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