Occupational asthma

Medicina del Lavoro

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 404-409

  Mapp, Cristina E ^a   Miotto, Deborah ^a   Boschetto, Piera ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Lung disease; Occupational asthma

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; ANTIASTHMATIC AGENT; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; IRRITANT AGENT;

ASTHMA; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR;

ALLERGENS; ANTI-ASTHMATIC AGENTS; ASTHMA; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMANS; IRRITANTS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 38349130994     PISSN: 00257818     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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