Occupational asthma

Lancet

Volumn 349, Issue 9063, 1997, Pages 1465-1469

  Venables, Katherine M ^a   Chan Yeung, Moira ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN E ANTIBODY; IRRITANT AGENT;

ATOPY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; OCCUPATIONAL ASTHMA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SHORT SURVEY; SMOKING; SPIROMETRY; SYMPTOM; T LYMPHOCYTE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WORKMAN COMPENSATION;

EID: 0030920774     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(96)07219-4     Document Type: Review

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