Monitoring of the occupational and environmental exposure to low doses of benzene;Il monitoraggio dell'esposizione occupazionale ed ambientale a basse dosi di benzene

Giornale Italiano di Medicina del Lavoro ed Ergonomia

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 251-255

  Lovreglio, Piero ^a   Carrieri, Mariella ^b   Barbieri, Anna ^c   Sabatini, Laura ^c   Fustinoni, Silvia ^d   Andreoli, Roberta ^e   D'Errico, Maria Nicolà ^a   Basso, Antonella ^a   Bartolucci, Giovanni Battista ^b   Soleo, Leonardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biomarkers; Environmental exposure; Occupational exposure

Indexed keywords

BENZENE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE;

BENZENE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE;

EID: 84885662038     PISSN: 15927830     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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