Chemical safety and health conditions among Hungarian Hospital Nurses

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1076, Issue , 2006, Pages 635-648

  Tompa, Anna ^a   Jakab, Mátyás ^b   Biró, Anna ^b   Magyar, Balázs ^a   Fodor, Zoltán ^b   Klupp, Tibor ^b   Major, Jenö ^b  

^a SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b National Institute of Chemical Safety   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Anesthetics; Chromosome aberrations; Cytostatics; Genotoxicological monitoring; Health status; HPRT mutations; Immune toxicology; Risk assessment; Sister chromatid exchange; Sterilizing agents; Tumors; Unscheduled DNA synthesis

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CHEMOSTERILANT; CYTOSTATIC AGENT; ETHYLENE OXIDE; FORMALDEHYDE; GLUCOSE;

ADULT; ANEMIA; B LYMPHOCYTE; BENIGN TUMOR; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CLINICAL LABORATORY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENOTOXICITY; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEALTH STATUS; HELPER CELL; HUMAN; HUNGARY; IMMUNOLOGICAL MONITORING; IMMUNOTOXICITY; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; NURSE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; QUALITY CONTROL; RESPIRATORY BURST; RISK FACTOR; SISTER CHROMATID EXCHANGE; THYROID DISEASE; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

LONCHOCARPUS GLAUCIFOLIUS;

EID: 33845662705     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1371.054     Document Type: Conference Paper

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