Farmers and farmworkers

Kanerva's Occupational Dermatology, Second Edition

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages 1425-1441

  Spiewak, Radoslaw ^a,b  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Poland)

^b Instytut Dermatologii   (Poland)

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EID: 84938998932     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-02035-3_150     Document Type: Chapter

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