The effects of indoor environmental exposures on pediatric asthma: a discrete event simulation model.

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Published in Environ Health on September 18, 2012

Authors

M Patricia Fabian1, Natasha K Stout, Gary Adamkiewicz, Amelia Geggel, Cizao Ren, Megan Sandel, Jonathan I Levy

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Environmental Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA. pfabian@bu.edu

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