Allergic alveolitis among agricultural workers in eastern Poland: A study of twenty cases

Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 31-43

  Milanowski, Janusz ^a,b   Dutkiewicz, Jacek ^b   Potoczna, Hanna ^c   Kuś, Leszek ^a   Urbanowicz, Barbara ^d  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LUBLIN   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL MEDICINE   (Poland)

^c City Hospital   (Poland)

^d JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Agricultural workers; Allergic alveolitis; BAL; Clinical cases; Corynebacteria; Etiology; Gram negative bacteria; Inhalation challenge; Organic dusts; Staphylococci

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ALCALIGENES FAECALIS; ALLERGIC PNEUMONITIS; ARTHROBACTER; ARTICLE; BREVIBACTERIUM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; ENTEROBACTER; ERWINIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INHALATION TEST; LUNG LAVAGE; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MALE; ORGANIC DUST; POLAND; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGRICULTURAL WORKERS' DISEASES; AIR MICROBIOLOGY; AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ALLERGENS; ALVEOLITIS, EXTRINSIC ALLERGIC; ARTHROBACTER; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE; CEREALS; DUST; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PANTOEA; POLAND;

ALCALIGENES FAECALIS; ARTHROBACTER; ARTHROBACTER GLOBIFORMIS; BREVIBACTERIUM; BREVIBACTERIUM LINENS; CORYNEBACTERIA; ENTEROBACTER; ERWINIA; NEGIBACTERIA; PANTOEA AGGLOMERANS; STAPHYLOCOCCI; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

EID: 0031749069     PISSN: 12321966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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