Occupational asthma caused by tali and jatoba wood dusts [6]

Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 361-363

  Quirce, Santiago ^a   Parra, Antonio ^b   Antón, Encarnación ^c   Fernández Nieto, Mar ^a   Jerez, Juan ^c   Sastre, Joaquín ^a  

^a Hospital UniversitarioFundación Jiménez Díaz   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL JUAN CANALEJO   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO MARQUÉS DE VALDECILLA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ASTHMA; BLOOD EXAMINATION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COUGHING; DUST; DYSPNEA; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; LEGUME; LETTER; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCULAR PRURITUS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SNEEZING; WHEEZING; WOOD; WOOD DUST;

EID: 1142309471     PISSN: 00916749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2003.11.018     Document Type: Letter

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