Exposure to bacterial endotoxin during conservative dental treatment

Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 137-139

  Szymańska, Jolanta ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LUBLIN   (Poland)

Author keywords

Aerosol; Air; Dental unit waterlines; Endotoxin assay; Limulus amoebocyte lysate test (LAL); Water

Indexed keywords

DISINFECTANT AGENT; ENDOTOXIN;

AEROSOL; AIR POLLUTANT; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; DENTAL CARE; DENTAL EQUIPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; INSTRUMENT STERILIZATION; LIMULUS; NONHUMAN; WATER CONTAMINATION;

AIR MICROBIOLOGY; AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; DENTAL DISINFECTANTS; DENTAL EQUIPMENT; DENTAL HIGH-SPEED EQUIPMENT; ENDOTOXINS; HUMANS; LIMULUS TEST; POLAND; TIME FACTORS;

LIMULUS; LIMULUS AMOEBOCYTE;

EID: 21544466438     PISSN: 12321966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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