Occupational exposure and sensitization to fungi among museum workers

Occupational Medicine

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 237-242

  Wiszniewska, Marta ^a   Walusiak Skorupa, Jolanta ^a   Pannenko, Iwona ^b   Draniak, Marcin ^b   Palczynski, Cezary ^a  

^a NOFER INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE   (Poland)

^b Laboratory for National Museum in Warsaw   (Poland)

Author keywords

Moulds; Museum workers; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E;

ACREMONIUM; ADULT; ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ALTERNARIA; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; ATOPY; CAT; CLADOSPORIUM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; EMPLOYEE; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; FUNGUS; FUNGUS ISOLATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION CENTER; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MOULD; OCCUPATIONAL ALLERGY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PAECILOMYCES; PENICILLIUM; POLAND; PRICK TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SENSITIZATION; SINUSITIS; SPIROMETRY; TRICHODERMA; WHITE COLLAR WORKER;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; CATS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY, IMMEDIATE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITOSPORIC FUNGI; MUSEUMS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POLAND; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RHINITIS, ALLERGIC, PERENNIAL; RISK FACTORS; SINUSITIS; SKIN TESTS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 66749102117     PISSN: 09627480     EISSN: 14718405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/occmed/kqp043     Document Type: Article

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