Non-malignant disease mortality in meat workers: A model for studying the role of zoonotic transmissible agents in non-malignant chronic diseases in humans

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 64, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 849-855

  Johnson, E S ^a,b   Zhou, Y ^a,b   Sall, M ^b   El Faramawi, M ^b   Shah, N ^a,b   Christopher, A ^a,b   Lewis, N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENDOCARDITIS; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAT INDUSTRY; MORTALITY; NEPHRITIS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPTICEMIA; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; ZOONOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHRONIC DISEASE; COHORT STUDIES; ENDOCARDITIS; FEMALE; FOOD INDUSTRY; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MARYLAND; MEAT; MIDDLE AGED; NEPHRITIS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RISK FACTORS; SEPSIS; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; ZOONOSES;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 36749081597     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2006.030825     Document Type: Article

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