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Drinking Water Quality and the Geospatial Distribution of Notified Gastro-Intestinal Infections / Kvaliteta Pitne Vode in Geoprostorska Porazdelitev Prijavljenih Črevesnih Okužb Cover

Drinking Water Quality and the Geospatial Distribution of Notified Gastro-Intestinal Infections / Kvaliteta Pitne Vode in Geoprostorska Porazdelitev Prijavljenih Črevesnih Okužb

Slovenian Journal of Public Health
Volume 54 (2015): Issue 3 (September 2015)
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/sjph-2015-0028 | Journal eISSN: 1854-2476 | Journal ISSN: 0351-0026
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Language: English, Slovenian
Page range: 194 - 203
Submitted on: Jul 16, 2014
Accepted on: Mar 16, 2015
Published on: Jun 9, 2015
Published by: National Institute of Public Health, Slovenia
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Keywords:
acute gastrointestinal infections,
surveillance,
drinking water monitoring,
quality of drinking water,
fecal pollution of drinking water,
GIS
Related subjects:
Medicine,
Clinical medicine,
Hygiene and environmental medicine

© 2015 Eva Grilc, Ivanka Gale, Aleš Veršič, Tina Žagar, Maja Sočan, published by National Institute of Public Health, Slovenia
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