Workplace, household, and personal predictors of pesticide exposure for farmworkers.

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Published in Environ Health Perspect on June 01, 2006

Authors

Sara A Quandt1, María A Hernández-Valero, Joseph G Grzywacz, Joseph D Hovey, Melissa Gonzales, Thomas A Arcury

Author Affiliations

1: Division of Public Health Sciences, Dept. of Epidemiology and Prevention, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27157-1063, USA. squandt@wfubmc.edu

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