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Occupational hazards and health cost of women cotton pickers in Pakistani Punjab

BACKGROUND: Farm workers and female cotton pickers are exposed to residual impacts of pesticide use in cotton production, in addition to dust, ultraviolet radiation, etc. Cotton picking causes various health hazards among cotton pickers with varied health cost. A soil bacterium known as Bacillus thu...

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Autores principales: Bakhsh, Khuda, Ahmad, Naeem, Kamran, M. Asif, Hassan, Sarfraz, Abbas, Qasir, Saeed, Rashed, Hashmi, M. Sadiq
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5020534/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27618928
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-016-3635-3