Airborne endotoxin and its relationship to pulmonary function among workers in an Indian jute mill

Archives of Environmental Health

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 202-208

  Mukherjee, Ashit K ^a   Chattopadhyay, Bhakar P ^a   Bhattacharya, Sanat K ^a   Saiyed, Habibullah N ^b  

^a Regional Occupational Health Centre Eastern   (India)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (India)

Author keywords

Byssinosis; Dust; Endotoxin; Exposure; Jute milling; Pulmonary function

Indexed keywords

ENDOTOXIN;

ADULT; AIR SAMPLING; ARTICLE; BYSSINOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COTTON; DUST; FLAX; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HEMP FIBER; HUMAN; INDIAN; JUTE; LIMULUS LYSATE TEST; LUNG FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SPIROMETRY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TEXTILE INDUSTRY; TEXTILE WORKER;

AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; BYSSINOSIS; CORCHORUS; DUST; ENDOTOXINS; HUMANS; INDIA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; TEXTILE INDUSTRY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CANNABIS SATIVA; CORCHORUS CAPSULARIS; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; LIMULUS; LINUM USITATISSIMUM;

EID: 24944584116     PISSN: 00039896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3200/AEOH.59.4.202-208     Document Type: Article

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