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Urinary 1-Hydroxypyrene-Glucuronide as a Biomarker of Exposure to Various Vehicle Exhausts among Highway Toll-Station Workers in Taipei, Taiwan

Ching-Huang Lai National Defense Medical Center Department of Public Health Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China
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Saou-Hsing Liou National Defense Medical Center Department of Public Health Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China
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Tung-Sheng Shih Council of Labor Affairs Institute of Occupational Safety and Health Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China
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Perng-Jy Tsai National Cheng Kung University Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Tainan, Taiwan, Republic of China
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Hsiao-Lung Chen National Cheng Kung University Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Tainan, Taiwan, Republic of China
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Timothy J. Buckley Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Department of Environmental Health Sciences Baltimore, Maryland
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Paul T. Strickland Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Department of Environmental Health Sciences Baltimore, Maryland
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Jouni J. K. Jaakkola The University of Birmingham Institute of Occupational and Environmental Medicine Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom
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Pages 61-69 | Published online: 07 Aug 2010

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