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[Development and application of poison databank and poisonous animal and plants sample databank]

Yu Yin1, Shao-Feng Jiang, Jun Cai

  • 1National Institute of Occupational Health and Poison Control, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing 100050, China.

Zhonghua Yu Fang Yi Xue Za Zhi [Chinese Journal of Preventive Medicine]
|September 16, 2008
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