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Predictors of silicosis and variation in prevalence across mines among employed gold miners in South Africa
BACKGROUND: The stated intention to eliminate silicosis from the South African goldmining industry as well as current programmes to find and compensate ex-miners with silicosis require an understanding of variation in silicosis prevalence across the industry. We aimed to identify the predictors of r...
Autores principales: | Knight, Dave, Ehrlich, Rodney, Cois, Annibale, Fielding, Katherine, Grant, Alison D., Churchyard, Gavin |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7268682/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32487111 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-08876-2 |
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