Exposure-response relations among laboratory animal workers exposed to rats

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 104-108

  Nieuwenhuijsen, M J ^a   Putcha, V ^b   Gordon, S ^b   Heederik, D ^c   Venables, K M ^b   Cullinan, P ^b   Newman Taylor, A J ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL HEART AND LUNG INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROALLERGEN; ALLERGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ALLERGIC REACTION; ALLERGY; ARTICLE; ATOPY; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABORATORY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIZATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; URINE; WORKER;

ADULT; ALLERGENS; ANIMAL TECHNICIANS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LABORATORY PERSONNEL; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RATS; RESPIRATORY HYPERSENSITIVITY; SMOKING; URINE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0037309718     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.60.2.104     Document Type: Article

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