Workplace irritant exposures: Do they produce true occupational asthma?

Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology

Volumn 90, Issue 5 SUPPL. 2, 2003, Pages 19-23

  Tarlo, Susan M ^a  

^a TORONTO WESTERN HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 DIETHYLAMINOETHANOL; CHLORINE; IRRITANT AGENT; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; PHOSPHORIC ACID DERIVATIVE; SULFUR DIOXIDE; TETRACHLOROETHYLENE; TOLUENE DIISOCYANATE;

ANIMAL MODEL; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE EXACERBATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL ASTHMA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESEARCH; RISK ASSESSMENT; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; WELDING; WORKPLACE; ANIMAL; ASTHMA; DISEASE MODEL; INCIDENCE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; ASTHMA; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; IRRITANTS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PREVALENCE; WORKPLACE;

EID: 0037976848     PISSN: 10811206     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1081-1206(10)61643-2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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