Occupational asthma due to IgE mediated allergy to the flower Molucella laevis (Bells of Ireland)

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 60, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 701-703

  Miesen, W M A J ^a   Van Der Heide, S ^a   Kerstjens, H A M ^a   Dubois, A E J ^a   De Monchy, J G R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; METHACHOLINE;

ACUTE PHASE RESPONSE; ADULT; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ALLERGIC REACTION; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; BRONCHUS REACTIVITY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DRUG SENSITIZATION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EOSINOPHIL; FLOWER; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; NEUTROPHIL; NOSE PROVOCATION TEST; OCCUPATIONAL ASTHMA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POLLEN ALLERGY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHINOCONJUNCTIVITIS; SEASONAL VARIATION;

AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ALBUTEROL; ALLERGENS; ASTHMA; BRONCHODILATOR AGENTS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POLLEN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BRONCHUS;

EID: 0041328614     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.60.9.701     Document Type: Article

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