Response of furniture factory workers to work-related airborne allergens

Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 91-97

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

^a INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL MEDICINE   (Poland)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LUBLIN   (Poland)

Author keywords

Agar gel precipitation test; Airborne allergens; Allergy; Bacteria; Fungi; Furniture industry workers; Intradermal test; Occupational exposure

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN;

ADULT; AGAR GEL DIFFUSION; AIRBORNE INFECTION; AIRBORNE PARTICLE; ALLERGIC REACTION; ARTHROBACTER; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FUNGUS ISOLATION; FURNITURE; HUMAN; INTRACUTANEOUS TEST; MALE; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; RAHNELLA; RISK FACTOR; SERODIAGNOSIS; SKIN MANIFESTATION; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA; WOOD DUST; WORKER;

ADULT; AIR MICROBIOLOGY; ALLERGENS; ARTHROBACTER; ASPERGILLUS; DUST; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY, DELAYED; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POLAND; PRECIPITIN TESTS; RAHNELLA; SKIN TESTS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; WOOD;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); ARTHROBACTER; ARTHROBACTER GLOBIFORMIS; ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI; PSEUDOMONAS; RAHNELLA; STENOTROPHOMONAS; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0036286629     PISSN: 12321966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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