Relationships between indoor environments and nasal inflammation in nursing personnel

Archives of Environmental Health

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 155-161

  Smedbold, Hans Thore ^a   Hilt, Bjørn ^a   Ahlen, Catrine ^b   Unimed, Sintef ^c   Nilsen, Asbjørn M ^d   Norbäck, Dan ^e  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b Microbial Exposure and Indoor Air   (United States)

^c Uppsala University ^*  (Norway)

^d NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^e UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Acoustic rhinometry; Aspergillus fumigatus; Hospital workers; Indoor climate; Nasal lavage

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIR SAMPLING; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CARBON DIOXIDE MEASUREMENT; CLIMATE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE MARKER; EDEMA; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; FUNGAL CONTAMINATION; FUNGUS GROWTH; GERIATRIC CARE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; LAVAGE; LUNG GAS EXCHANGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; NOSE DISEASE; NOSE MUCOSA; NOSE SECRETION; NURSING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROOM TEMPERATURE; ROOM VENTILATION;

ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; FUNGI;

EID: 0036523318     PISSN: 00039896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00039890209602930     Document Type: Article

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