Medicine
Volume 35, Issue 10 , Pages 537-539 , October 2007

The epidemiology of poisoning

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PII: S1357-3039(07)00205-8

doi: 10.1016/j.mpmed.2007.07.005

Medicine
Volume 35, Issue 10 , Pages 537-539 , October 2007

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