Eighteen Cases Exposed to Sarin in Matsumoto, Japan.
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Sarin poisoning of a rescue team in the Matsumoto sarin incident in Japan.
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عنوان ژورنال: Internal Medicine
سال: 1997
ISSN: 0918-2918,1349-7235
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.36.466