Health risks due to coffee dust

Chest

Volumn 136, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 536-544

  Oldenburg, Marcus ^a,b   Bittner, Cordula ^a,b   Baur, Xaver ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b Hamburg State Department for Social Affairs Family Health and Consumer Protection   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN E ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ALLERGY TEST; ARTICLE; COFFEE; CONJUNCTIVA DISEASE; DUST EXPOSURE; ERYTHEMA; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NOSE DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RICINUS COMMUNIS;

EID: 68849095787     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: 19313543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.08-1965     Document Type: Article

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