Airborne contaminants and farmers health in swine farms with high and low prevalence of respiratory diseases in pigs

Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 87-92

  Jolie, Rika ^a   Bäckström, Lennart ^a   Gunderson, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b National Farm Medicine Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Dust; Endotoxin; Farmers health; Peptidoglycan; Pulmonary function; Respiratory disease; Swine

Indexed keywords

ENDOTOXIN; PEPTIDOGLYCAN;

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; AIRBORNE INFECTION; AIRBORNE PARTICLE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; DEMOGRAPHY; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; LUNG FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL LUNG DISEASE; ORGANIC DUST; PREVALENCE; RURAL HYGIENE; SWINE; SWINE DISEASE; SYMPTOM;

ADULT; AGRICULTURAL WORKERS' DISEASES; AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ANIMALS; HUMANS; ILLINOIS; PREVALENCE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; SPIROMETRY; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; WISCONSIN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0031746053     PISSN: 12321966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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