Occupational asthma caused by soybean hull: A workplace equivalent to epidemic asthma

Allergy: European Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 350-351

  Maggio, P ^a   Monsó, Eduard ^a   Baltasar, M ^a   Morera, J ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI GERMANS TRIAS I PUJOL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Hull; Occupational asthma; Soybean; Specific provocation challenge

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ALLERGY TEST; ARTICLE; BRONCHOSPASM; CASE REPORT; FLOUR; FOOD HANDLING; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL ASTHMA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVOCATION TEST; SENSITIZATION; SKIN TEST; SOYBEAN;

ADULT; ALLERGENS; ASTHMA; BRONCHIAL PROVOCATION TESTS; DUST; HUMANS; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PLANT EPIDERMIS; SOYBEANS;

EID: 0038671891     PISSN: 01054538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1398-9995.2003.00089.x     Document Type: Article

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