Effects of exposure to grain dust in Polish farmers: Work-related symptoms and immunologic response to microbial antigens associated with dust

Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 147-153

  Skórska, Czesława ^a   Mackiewicz, Barbara ^b   Dutkiewicz, Jacek ^a   Krysińska Traczyk, Ewa ^a   Milanowski, Janusz ^a,b   Feltovich, Helen ^c   Lange, Jeffrey ^c   Thorne, Peter S ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL MEDICINE   (Poland)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LUBLIN   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Allergy; Farmers; Grain dust; Harvesting; Health effects; Microbial antigens; Occupational exposure; Threshing; Work related symptoms

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAIN DUST; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROORGANISM; OCCUPATIONAL ALLERGY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL LUNG DISEASE; SKIN ALLERGY; SPIROMETRY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADULT; AGRICULTURAL WORKERS' DISEASES; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, FUNGAL; CEREALS; DUST; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; SKIN TESTS;

EID: 0344629327     PISSN: 12321966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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