Rayon flock: A new cause of respiratory morbidity in a card processing plant

American Journal of Industrial Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 274-284

  Antao, Vinicius C S ^a   Piacitelli, Chris A ^a   Miller, William E ^a   Pinheiro, Germania A ^a   Kreiss, Kathleen ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross sectional studies; Flock workers' lung; Interstitial lung diseases; Occupational diseases; Viscose fiber

Indexed keywords

CARBON MONOXIDE; METHACHOLINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRONCHIOLITIS; CLEANING; DEMOGRAPHY; DUST EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FIBER; HUMAN; LUNG DIFFUSION CAPACITY; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL LUNG DISEASE; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; PROVOCATION TEST; QUESTIONNAIRE; RACE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SMOKING; SPIROMETRY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; WORK SCHEDULE;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; CELLULOSE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DUST; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES, INTERSTITIAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SPIROMETRY; TEXTILE INDUSTRY; VITAL CAPACITY; WEST VIRGINIA;

EID: 34247277093     PISSN: 02713586     EISSN: 10970274     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajim.20440     Document Type: Article

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