Birch wetwood as a source of potential bacterial hazard for woodworkers

Annals of Agriculture and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 67-70

  Prazmo, Zofia ^a   Krysińska Traczyk, Ewa ^a   Skórska, Czesława ^a   Sitkowska, Jolanta ^a   Cholewa, Grazyna ^a   Urbanowicz, Barbara ^b   Dutkiewicz, Jacek ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL MEDICINE   (Poland)

^b JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Birch; Endotoxin; Gram negative bacteria; Membrane vesicles; Occupational biohazards; Pseudomonas; Ultrastructure; Wetwood; Woodworkers

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002171131     PISSN: 12321966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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