Risk of occupational allergy to stored grain arthropods and false pest-risk perception in Czech grain stores

Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 29-35

  Stejskal, Václav ^a   Hubert, Jan ^a  

^a CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Allergy avoidance; Allergy levels; Fumigation; Insects; Mites; Stored food

Indexed keywords

PESTICIDE;

ACARUS FARIS; ACARUS SIRO; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ALLERGENICITY; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BEETLE; CEREAL; CZECH REPUBLIC; FOOD STORAGE; GRAIN; LEPIDOGLYPHUS DESTRUCTOR; MITE; MOTH; OCCUPATIONAL ALLERGY; PEST CONTROL; POPULATION DENSITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; TYROPHAGUS PUTRESCENTIAE;

AGRICULTURAL WORKERS' DISEASES; ALLERGENS; ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; CEREALS; CZECH REPUBLIC; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD HANDLING; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INSECTS; MITES; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PEST CONTROL; POPULATION DENSITY; PREVALENCE; RESPIRATORY HYPERSENSITIVITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKIN TESTS;

ACARI; ACARUS SIRO; ARTHROPODA; COLEOPTERA; HEXAPODA; LEPIDOGLYPHUS DESTRUCTOR; LEPIDOPTERA; TYROPHAGUS PUTRESCENTIAE;

EID: 46349091316     PISSN: 12321966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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