Antibiotics in dust originating from a pig-fattening farm: A new source of health hazard for farmers?

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 111, Issue 13, 2003, Pages 1590-1594

  Hamscher, Gerd ^a   Pawelzick, Heike Theresia ^a   Sczesny, Silke ^a,b   Nau, Heinz ^a   Hartung, Jörg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b GERMAN INSTITUTE OF HUMAN NUTRITION   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antibiotics; Dust; Farmer; Liquid chromatography; Mass spectrometry; Pig fattening; Veterinary drugs

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CHLORTETRACYCLINE; DRUG RESIDUE; ENDOTOXIN; OXYTETRACYCLINE; SULFADIMIDINE; TETRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE; TYLOSIN; VETERINARY DRUG;

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ANIMAL CARE; ANIMAL FOOD; ANIMAL HOUSING; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTAMINATION; DRUG STRUCTURE; DUST EXPOSURE; FECES; HUMAN; MICROORGANISM; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PIG FARMING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ANIMALIA; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0142092584     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.6288     Document Type: Article

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