Assessment of soy aeroallergen levels in different work environments

Clinical and Experimental Allergy

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1863-1872

  Gomez Olles S ^a,b,c   Cruz, M J ^a,c   Bogdanovic, J ^d   Wouters, I M ^d   Doekes, G ^d   Sander, I ^e   Morell, F ^a,b,c   Rodrigo, M J ^a,c  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Epidemic asthma; Immunoassays; Occupational asthma; Soy flour; Soy hull

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; SOYBEAN PROTEIN;

AIRBORNE PARTICLE; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DUST AND DUST RELATED PHENOMENA; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOYBEAN; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

AIR POLLUTANTS; ALLERGENS; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; HUMANS; IMMUNOASSAY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; SOYBEAN PROTEINS; WORKPLACE;

EID: 36348968235     PISSN: 09547894     EISSN: 13652222     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2222.2007.02827.x     Document Type: Article

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