Particulate matter concentrations during desert dust outbreaks and daily mortality in Nicosia, Cyprus

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  2013

• Venue

  Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology

• Publication date

  2013-02-20

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1038/jes.2013.10PMID 23423218
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