Acute respiratory symptoms among sisal workers in Tanzania

Occupational Medicine

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 290-293

  Kayumba, Akwilina V ^a,b   Bråtveit, Magne ^a   Mashalla, Yohana ^c   Moen, Bente E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b Tanzania Occupational Health Services   (Tanzania)

^c MUHIMBILI UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

Agricultural workers; Respiratory symptoms; Sisal

Indexed keywords

ACUTE RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE TEST; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; FISHER EXACT TEST; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RHINORRHEA; SISAL; SNEEZING; STUDENT T TEST; SYMPTOM; TANZANIA;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGRICULTURAL WORKERS' DISEASES; AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; COUGH; DUST; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PREVALENCE; RESPIRATION DISORDERS; RESPIRATORY SOUNDS; SNEEZING; TANZANIA;

EID: 34447645850     PISSN: 09627480     EISSN: 14718405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/occmed/kqm004     Document Type: Article

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