Airway disease and thaumatin-like protein in an olive-oil mill worker

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 358, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1306-1308

  Palomares, Oscar ^a   Alcántara, Manuel ^b   Quiralte, Joaquín ^b   Villalba, Mayte ^a   Garzón, Francisco ^b   Rodríguez, Rosalía ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b Servicio Andaluz de Salud   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; OLIVE OIL; THAUMATIN; THAUMATIN PROTEIN, PLANT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEGETABLE OIL; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ADULT; CASE REPORT; CHEST TIGHTNESS; DYSPNEA; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; GEL PERMEATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LETTER; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL ASTHMA; OLIVE; POLLEN; PRICK TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; REVERSED PHASE HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; RHINITIS; RHINOMANOMETRY; SENSITIZATION; SKIN TEST; SPIROMETRY; URTICARIA; WHEEZING; ASTHMA; CHEMISTRY; FOOD INDUSTRY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OLIVE TREE;

ADULT; ALLERGENS; ASTHMA; FOOD INDUSTRY; HUMANS; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OLEA; PLANT OILS; PLANT PROTEINS;

EID: 40949155512     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc0707778     Document Type: Letter

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