Byssinosis and other cotton-related diseases

Hunter’s Diseases of Occupations, Tenth edition

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 958-969

  Cac, Pickering ^a   Niven, Robert ^b  

^a WYTHENSHAWE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

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