The clinical spectrum of humidifier disease in synthetic fiber plants

American Journal of Industrial Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 682-692

  Pal, Teake M ^a,c   De Monchy, Jan G R ^b   Groothoff, Johan W ^a   Post, Doeke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c Occupational Health Department   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

extrinsic allergic alveolitis; humidifier disease; humidifier fever; oil mist; Sporothrix schenckii; synthetic fibers

Indexed keywords

FUNGUS ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AIR SAMPLING; ALLERGIC PNEUMONITIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; FIBER; FURNITURE; HUMAN; HUMIDIFIER; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; OCCUPATIONAL ASTHMA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL LUNG DISEASE; PARTICLE SIZE; SENSITIZATION; SPOROTHRIX SCHENCKII;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ALVEOLITIS, EXTRINSIC ALLERGIC; ENVIRONMENT, CONTROLLED; HUMANS; HUMIDITY; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; SPOROTHRIX; TEXTILE INDUSTRY;

EID: 0030897102     PISSN: 02713586     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0274(199706)31:6<682::AID-AJIM3>3.0.CO;2-T     Document Type: Article

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