An outbreak of extrinsic alveolitis at a car engine plant

Occupational Medicine

Volumn 56, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 559-565

  Dawkins, Paul ^a,b   Robertson, Alastair ^a   Robertson, Wendy ^a   Moore, Vicky ^a   Reynolds, John ^a   Langman, Gerald ^a   Robinson, Edward ^a   Harris Roberts, Joanne ^a   Crook, Brian ^a   Burge, Sherwood ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS BIRMINGHAM NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Extrinsic allergic alveolitis; Factory; Hypersensitivity pneumonitis; Metal working fluids; Occupational exposure; Precipitins

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; BIOCIDE; CORTICOSTEROID; METAL; WATER OIL CREAM;

ACINETOBACTER; ALLERGIC PNEUMONITIS; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; AUSCULTATION; AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DYSPNEA; EPIDEMIC; GAS DIFFUSION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; INFLAMMATORY INFILTRATE; INFLUENZA; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG GRANULOMA; LUNG VOLUME; LYMPHOCYTOSIS; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCHROBACTRUM; PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROLOGY; SPIROMETRY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRACHEOBRONCHIAL TOILET; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ALVEOLITIS, EXTRINSIC ALLERGIC; AUTOMOBILES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EMULSIONS; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; LUBRICATION; LUNG; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33845689075     PISSN: 09627480     EISSN: 14718405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/occmed/kql110     Document Type: Article

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