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. 2002 Dec;59(12):855–860. doi: 10.1136/oem.59.12.855

EPISODES OF ENVIRONMENTAL POISONING WORLDWIDE

N Langford 1, R Ferner 1
PMCID: PMC1763611  PMID: 12468757

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