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Hearing Loss from Combined Exposures among Petroleum Refinery Workers

Thais C Morata National Institute for Occupational Safely and Health, Bioacoustics and Occupational Vibration Section, Division of Biomedical and Behavioral Science, Cincinnati, Ohio, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Terry Engel National Institute for Occupational Safely and Health, Bioacoustics and Occupational Vibration Section, Division of Biomedical and Behavioral Science, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA; US Air Force, 78th Med Group/SGP FA, Robins AFBGeorgia, USA
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Alvaro Durão Pan American Heálth Organization, World Health Organization, Washington, DC, USA
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Thelma RS Costa Pontifica Universidade Católica de São Paulo, Department of Communication Disorders, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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Edward F Krieg National Institute for Occupational Safely and Health, Bioacoustics and Occupational Vibration Section, Division of Biomedical and Behavioral Science, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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Derek E Dunn National Institute for Occupational Safely and Health, Bioacoustics and Occupational Vibration Section, Division of Biomedical and Behavioral Science, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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Maria Angelica Lozano Colsanitas Health Service, Department of Occupational Health, Bogota, Colombia
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Pages 141-149 | Received 01 Jul 1996, Accepted 07 Jan 1997, Published online: 12 Oct 2009

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