Soils: their implications to human health.

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• Publication year

  2002

• Venue

  Science of the Total Environment

• Publication date

  2002-05-27

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1016/S0048-9697(01)01102-0PMID 12150429
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