Occupational health risks due to shipboard cockroaches

International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health

Volumn 81, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 727-734

  Oldenburg, Marcus ^a   Latza, Ute ^a   Baur, Xaver ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cockroaches; Sensitization; Ships

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATOPY; COCKROACH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FOOD STORAGE; GERMANY; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; INSECT; INTERVIEW; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG VENTILATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PERIODIC MEDICAL EXAMINATION; PREVALENCE; PRICK TEST; PROVOCATION TEST; SAILOR; SENSITIZATION; SHIP; SHIPPING; SKIN TEST; TROPICS;

ADULT; ALLERGENS; ANIMALS; COCKROACHES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DERMATITIS, ATOPIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY, IMMEDIATE; INSECT PROTEINS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; SHIPS; SKIN TESTS;

BLATTARIA; BLATTELLA GERMANICA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 40349116651     PISSN: 03400131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00420-007-0247-3     Document Type: Article

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