The presence of the top prescribed pharmaceuticals in treated sewage effluents and receiving waters in Southwest Nova Scotia, Canada

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  2014

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  Environmental science and pollution research international

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  Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1007/s11356-014-3400-zPMID 25099660
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