Exposure of Indian agricultural workers to airborne microorganisms, dust and endotoxin during handling of various plant products

Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 269-275

  Krysińska Traczyk, Ewa ^a   Pande, Bhawanipant N ^b   Skórska, Czesława ^a   Sitkowska, Jolanta ^a   Prazmo, Zofia ^a   Cholewa, Grazyna ^a   Dutkiewicz, Jacek ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL MEDICINE   (Poland)

^b DR BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR MARATHWADA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Agricultural workers; Bacteria; Bioaerosols; Endotoxin; Fungi; India; Occupational exposure; Organic dust

Indexed keywords

ENDOTOXIN;

ACTINOBACTERIA; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; AIR SAMPLING; AIRBORNE PARTICLE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORYNEBACTERIUM; DUST EXPOSURE; FUNGUS; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; INDIA; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OCCUPATIONAL LUNG DISEASE; PLANT PRODUCT; STREPTOMYCES; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM;

AGRICULTURAL WORKERS' DISEASES; AIR MICROBIOLOGY; AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; BACTERIA; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; DUST; ENDOTOXINS; FUNGI; HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES; HUMANS; INDIA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERIACEAE; CORYNEBACTERIUM; FUNGI; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; NEGIBACTERIA; PENNISETUM GLAUCUM; STREPTOMYCES; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 33645074432     PISSN: 12321966     EISSN: 12321966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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