A seven-year follow-up study of lung function and methacholine responsiveness in sensitized and non-sensitized workers handling laboratory animals

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 118-124

  Sjöstedt, Lars ^a,b   Willers, Stefan ^b   Ørbaek, Palle ^b   Wollmer, Per ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTAMINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E;

ADULT; ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; LABORATORY PERSONNEL; LUNG FUNCTION; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL ALLERGY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRICK TEST; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIOALLERGOSORBENT TEST; RESIDUAL VOLUME; SENSITIZATION; SPIROMETRY; VITAL CAPACITY;

ADULT; AIRWAY RESISTANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; ASTHMA; BRONCHIAL PROVOCATION TESTS; BRONCHOCONSTRICTOR AGENTS; DERMATITIS, CONTACT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; METHACHOLINE CHLORIDE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; RHINITIS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0344835743     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00043764-199802000-00007     Document Type: Article

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