Zinc exposure in Chinese foundry workers

American Journal of Industrial Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 574-580

  Martin, Christopher J ^a   Le, X Chris ^a   Guidotti, Tee L ^a   Yalcin, Serife ^a   Chum, Elliott ^a   Audette, Robert J ^b   Liang, Chaoke ^c   Yuan, Baoshan ^d   Zhang, Xue ^e   Wu, Jie ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^d LANZHOU MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

^e Baiyin Labor Institute   (China)

Author keywords

Biological monitoring; Metal fume fever; Zinc

Indexed keywords

ZINC; ZINC OXIDE;

ADULT; AIR SAMPLING; ARTICLE; CHINA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; FOUNDRY; FUME; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; SPIROMETRY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; ZINC BLOOD LEVEL; ZINC URINE LEVEL;

ADULT; CHINA; HUMANS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; MALE; METALLURGY; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; ZINC OXIDE;

EID: 0032940886     PISSN: 02713586     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0274(199906)35:6<574::AID-AJIM4>3.0.CO;2-L     Document Type: Article

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