Agricultural seed dust as a potential cause of organic dust toxic syndrome

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 59-67

  Smit, L A M ^a   Wouters, I M ^a   Hobo, M M ^a   Eduard, W ^b   Doekes, G ^a   Heederik, D ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; ENDOTOXIN; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE;

AGRICULTURAL SEED DUST; AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CEREAL; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DUST EXPOSURE; ENDOTOXIN EXPOSURE LIMIT; EXTRACT; GRAIN DUST; GRASS; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HORTICULTURE; HUMAN; INFESTATION; INFLAMMATION; INTOXICATION; JOB ANALYSIS; LABORATORY; LIMULUS LYSATE TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE CONCENTRATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MONITOR; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; ORGANIC DUST; ORGANIC DUST TOXIC SYNDROME; PLANT SEED EXTRACT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VEGETABLE;

AGRICULTURAL WORKERS' DISEASES; AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; BACTERIA; CYTOKINES; DUST; ENDOTOXINS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PLANT EXTRACTS; POLYMYXIN B; SEEDS; SPORES, FUNGAL; SYNDROME;

LIMULUS; SPERMATOPHYTA;

EID: 29744441561     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2005.021527     Document Type: Article

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