Farming and asthma

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 211-212

  Schenker, M B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON MONOXIDE; CHLORIDE; DISINFECTANT AGENT; ENDOTOXIN; FUEL; FUNGICIDE; GLUCAN; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; ORGANOPHOSPHATE INSECTICIDE; PARAQUAT; PESTICIDE; SILICATE; SILICON DIOXIDE; SOLVENT; TOXIC SUBSTANCE;

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ALLERGIC PNEUMONITIS; ASBESTOSIS; ATOPY; BRONCHITIS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; COTTON DUST; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; EDITORIAL; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; GRAIN; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTIOUS PNEUMONIA; OCCUPATIONAL ASTHMA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WORKPLACE; ADULT; AGE; AIR POLLUTANT; ASTHMA; CHILD; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE;

GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGRICULTURAL WORKERS' DISEASES; AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ASTHMA; CHILD; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; PREVALENCE;

EID: 15944379221     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2004.019109     Document Type: Editorial

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