Environmental pollutants and pediatric asthma
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Environmental epidemiology of pediatric asthma and allergy.
1 Department of Biostatistics and Research Epidemiology, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI. 2 National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Center in Molecular and Cellular Toxicology with Human Applications, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI. 3 Section of Allergy-Immunology, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA. 4 Section of Allergy and Immunology, Division of Pulmonary, Critica...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Pediatric Health
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1745-5111,1745-512X
DOI: 10.2217/17455111.2.3.255