Epidemiologic impact of toxic episodes: Neurotoxic toxins

Seafood and Freshwater Toxins: Pharmacology, Physiology, and Detection, Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 77-103

  Gessner, Bradford D ^a   McLaughlin, Joseph B ^a  

^a Alaska Division of Public Health   (United States)

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