Evaluation of workers' exposure to dust, ammonia and endotoxin in poultry industries at the province of Isfahan, Iran

Industrial Health

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 41-46

  Golbabaei, Farideh ^a   Islami, Firouzeh ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Ammonia; Broiler; Chicken; Endotoxin; Laying hen; Parent stock; Respirable dust; Total dust

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; ENDOTOXIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ENVIRONMENT; DUST; DUST EXPOSURE; IRAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; POULTRY; SUMMER; WINTER;

GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 0033981717     PISSN: 00198366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2486/indhealth.38.41     Document Type: Article

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