Exposure to airborne microorganisms in furniture factories

Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 85-90

  Krysinska Traczyk, Ewa ^a   Skórska, Czesława ^a   Cholewa, Grazyna ^a   Sitkowska, Jolanta ^a   Milanowski, Janusz ^b   Dutkiewicz, Jacek ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL MEDICINE   (Poland)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LUBLIN   (Poland)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Bioaerosols; Fungi; Furniture factories; Occupational exposure; Wood dust

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; IMMUNOTOXIN;

AEROSOL; AIR SAMPLING; AIRBORNE INFECTION; ARTHROBACTER; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLORA; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BREVIBACTERIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FUNGUS; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; FURNITURE; HUMAN; IMMUNOTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; WOOD DUST;

ABSIDIA; AIR MICROBIOLOGY; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; ARTHROBACTER; ASPERGILLUS; CORYNEBACTERIUM; DUST; HUMANS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; INTERIOR DESIGN AND FURNISHINGS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PENICILLIUM; POLAND; WOOD; YEASTS;

ABSIDIA; ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); ARTHROBACTER; ASPERGILLUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BREVIBACTERIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM; FAGUS; FUNGI; PENICILLIUM; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0036283939     PISSN: 12321966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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