Endotoxin exposure assessment in wood-processing industry: Airborne versus settled dust levels

Arhiv za Higijenu Rada i Toksikologiju

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 161-166

  Pipinić, Ivana Sabolić ^a   Varnai, Veda Marija ^a   Lučić, Ružica Beljo ^b   Čavlović, Ankica ^b   Prester, Ljerka ^a   Orct, Tatjana ^a   MacAn, Jelena ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH AND OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

airborne dust; bioaerosols; LAL test; parquet manufacture; sawmill

Indexed keywords

ENDOTOXIN; AIR POLLUTANT; DUST;

AIR DUST; AIRBORNE PARTICLE; ARTICLE; BUILDING; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CROATIA; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HEALTH HAZARD; INDUSTRIAL AREA; LIMULUS LYSATE TEST; MACHINE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PARQUET MANUFACTURE; POLLUTION; RESERVOIR; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; SAMPLING; SAWDUST; SAWMILL; SETTLED DUST; AIR POLLUTANT; ANALYSIS; DUST; HUMAN; INDUSTRY; WOOD;

AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; CROATIA; DUST; ENDOTOXINS; HUMANS; INDUSTRY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; WOOD;

EID: 77954481660     PISSN: 00041254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/10004-1254-61-2010-1996     Document Type: Article

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