Health effects of exposure to organic dust in workers of a modern hatchery

Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 341-345

  Skórska, Czesława ^a   Mackiewicz, Barbara ^b   Golec, Marcin ^a   Cholewa, Grazyna ^a   Chmielowiec Korzeniowska, Anna ^c   Dutkiewicz, Jacek ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL MEDICINE   (Poland)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LUBLIN   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES IN LUBLIN   (Poland)

Author keywords

Allergy; Hatchery workers; Ige; Occupational exposure; Organic dust; Precipitins; Spirometry; Work related symptoms

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; PRECIPITIN;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACTINOBACTERIA; ADULT; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; FUNGUS; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HATCHERY; HUMAN; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; ORGANIC DUST; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POLAND; POULTRY FARMING; ROOM VENTILATION; SPIROMETRY; SYMPTOM;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ALLERGENS; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHICKENS; DUST; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRECIPITINS; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; SPIROMETRY; VENTILATION;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); AVES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGI; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 39649124026     PISSN: 12321966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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