Occupational Health Hazards as Perceived by Poultry Processing Slaughterhouse Workers
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عنوان ژورنال: The Medical Journal of Cairo University
سال: 2018
ISSN: 2536-9806
DOI: 10.21608/mjcu.2018.56127