Response of sawmill workers to work-related airborne allergens

Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 81-90

  Dutkiewicz, Jacek ^a   Skórska, Czesława ^a   Krysińska Traczyk, Ewa ^a   Dutkiewicz, Elzbieta ^a   Matuszyk, Alicja ^a,b   Sitkowska, Jolanta ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL MEDICINE   (Poland)

^b Regional Centre of Occupational Medicine   (Poland)

Author keywords

Agar gel precipitation test; Allergens; Bacteria; Fungi; Intradermal test; Sawmills; Sensitization; Wood dust; Woodworkers; Work related symptoms

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; BREVIBACTERIUM LINENS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MICROFLORA; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL ALLERGY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OCCUPATIONAL SKIN DISEASE; PENICILLIUM CITRINUM; RAHNELLA; SKIN MANIFESTATION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ACTINOMYCETALES; ADULT; AIR MICROBIOLOGY; AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ALLERGENS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, FUNGAL; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRECIPITIN TESTS; SKIN TESTS; WOOD;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BREVIBACTERIUM LINENS; FUNGI; NEGIBACTERIA; PENICILLIUM CITRINUM; QUERCUS; RAHNELLA;

EID: 0034956753     PISSN: 12321966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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