Work-related asthma in teachers in Connecticut: Association with chronic water damage and fungal growth in schools

Connecticut Medicine

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 9-17

  Dangman, Kenneth H ^a   Bracker, Anne L ^a   Storey, Eileen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIR SAMPLING; BRONCHITIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EVALUATION; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; FUNGUS GROWTH; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; OCCUPATIONAL ASTHMA; PANIC; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; RHINITIS; SINUSITIS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TEACHER; UNITED STATES; WATER ANALYSIS;

ADULT; ASTHMA; CONNECTICUT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FUNGI; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SCHOOLS; TEACHING;

EID: 12344322497     PISSN: 00106178     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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