Preliminary report on the results of the second phase of a round-robin endotoxin assay study using cotton dust

Applied Occupational and Environmental Hygiene

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 152-157

  Chun, David T W ^a   Chew, Victor ^b   Bartlett, Karen ^c   Gordon, Terry ^d   Jacobs, Robert R ^e   Larsson, Britt Marie ^f   Larsson, Lennart ^g   Lewis, Daniel M ^h   Liesivuori, Jyrki ⁱ   Michel, Olivier ^j   Milton, Donald K ^k   Rylander, Ragnar ^l   Thorne, Peter S ^m   White, Eugene M ^h   Brown, Mary E ^h  

^a USDA ARS Cotton Quality Research Station   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR MEDICAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR WORKING LIFE   (Sweden)

^g LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^h NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

ⁱ FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

^j SAINT PIERRE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^k HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^m UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

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Author keywords

Cotton Dust; Endotoxin Assay; Limulus Amoebocyte Lysate Test (LAL); Lipopolysaccharide (LPS); Round Robin Endotoxin Assay Study

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; ASSAY; CONFERENCE PAPER; COTTON DUST; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LABORATORY TEST; MEMBRANE FILTER; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLING;

AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; DUST; ENDOTOXINS; GOSSYPIUM; HUMANS; LIMULUS TEST; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; OBSERVER VARIATION; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 6744255807     PISSN: 1047322X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/104732200301971     Document Type: Article

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