Occupational lung disease related to Cytophaga endotoxin exposure in a nylon plant

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 385-392

  Nordness, Mark E ^a   Zacharisen, Michael C ^a,b   Schlueter, Donald P ^a   Fink, Jordan N ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDOTOXIN; NYLON; PRECIPITIN;

AIR CONDITIONING; ALLERGIC PNEUMONITIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEVER; FLEXIBACTERACEAE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HUMIDIFIER; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL LUNG DISEASE; PROVOCATION TEST; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TEXTILE INDUSTRY;

ALVEOLITIS, EXTRINSIC ALLERGIC; CYTOPHAGA; ENDOTOXINS; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; NYLONS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; TEXTILE INDUSTRY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYTOPHAGA; FLEXIBACTERACEAE;

EID: 0037387345     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.jom.0000058340.05741.37     Document Type: Article

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