Seasonal variations in work-related health effects in swine farm workers

Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 43-52

  Bønløkke, Jakob Hjort ^a,d   Mériaux, Anne ^a   Duchaine, Caroline ^a,b   Godbout, Stéphane ^c   Cormier, Yvon ^a  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^c Research and Development Institute for the Agri Environment   (Canada)

^d AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Bioaerosol exposure; Endotoxin; Health effects; Inflammatory mediators; Personal inhalable sampling; Season; Spirometry; Swine confinement houses; Work environment

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; ENDOTOXIN; INTERLEUKIN 6; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR;

ADULT; AEROSOL; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; AIR SAMPLING; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CANADA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PIG FARMING; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUMMER; WINTER; WORK SCHEDULE;

ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-6; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RECEPTORS, TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR, TYPE II; SEASONS; SWINE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

SUIDAE;

EID: 67650921172     PISSN: 12321966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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