Respiratory symptoms and dust exposure among male workers in small-scale wood industries in Tanzania

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1153-1160

  Rongo, Larama M B ^a,b,c,e   Besselink, Anoek ^b   Douwes, Jeroen ^b   Barten, Françoise ^c   Msamanga, Gernard I ^a   Dolmans, Wil M V ^c   Demers, Paul A ^d   Heederik, Dick ^b  

^a Muhimbili Univ Coll of Hlth Sci   (South Africa)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^e Nijmegen Inst for Intl Health   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL ASTHMA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL LUNG DISEASE; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SNEEZING; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TANZANIA; WHEEZING; WOOD; WOOD DUST;

ADULT; ASTHMA; COUGH; DUST; HUMANS; INDUSTRY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESPIRATION DISORDERS; TANZANIA; WOOD;

EID: 0036910743     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00043764-200212000-00009     Document Type: Article

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