Exposure to airborne microorganisms and endotoxin in a potato processing plant

Annals of Agriculture and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 225-235

  Dutkiewicz, Jacek ^a   Krysińska Traczyk, Ewa ^a   Skórska, Czesława ^a   Cholewa, Grazyna ^a   Sitkowska, Jolanta ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL MEDICINE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Agromyces ramosus; Aspergillus niger; Bacteria; Bioaerosols; Endotoxin; Fungi; Occupational exposure; Organic dust; Potato industry

Indexed keywords

ENDOTOXIN;

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; BACTERIUM; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CORYNEBACTERIUM; FUNGUS; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROFLORA; MICROORGANISM; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; ORGANIC DUST; POTATO; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

AGRICULTURAL WORKERS' DISEASES; AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; DUST; ENDOTOXINS; FOOD INDUSTRY; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; FUNGI; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; HUMANS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POLAND; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

AGROMYCES RAMOSUS; ARTHROBACTER; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; BACILLI; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERIA; CORYNEBACTERIUM; FUNGI; MICROBACTERIUM; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0036907860     PISSN: 12321966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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