Endotoxin and dust at respirable and nonrespirable particle sizes are not consistent between cage- and floor-housed poultry operations

Annals of Occupational Hygiene

Volumn 54, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 824-832

  Kirychuk, Shelley P ^a   Reynolds, Stephen J ^b   Koehncke, Niels K ^a   Lawson, Joshua ^a   Willson, Philip ^a   Senthilselvan, Ambikaipakan ^c   Marciniuk, Darcy ^a   Classen, Henry L ^a   Crowe, Trever ^a   Just, Natasha ^a   Schneberger, David ^a   Dosman, James A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

dust; endotoxin; impactor; poultry; respirable; size fractions

Indexed keywords

ENDOTOXIN; IMPACTOR; POULTRY; RESPIRABLE; SIZE FRACTION;

FLOORS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS;

DUST;

ENDOTOXIN;

AIR POLLUTANT; ANIMAL; ANIMAL HOUSING; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; BREATHING DISORDER; CANADA; CHRONIC DISEASE; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EXPOSURE; FILTRATION; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIMULUS LYSATE TEST; METHODOLOGY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PARTICLE SIZE; POULTRY; SPUTUM;

AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; CHRONIC DISEASE; DUST; ENDOTOXINS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FILTRATION; HOUSING, ANIMAL; HUMANS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; LIMULUS TEST; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PARTICLE SIZE; POULTRY; RESPIRATION DISORDERS; SASKATCHEWAN; SPUTUM;

EID: 77958190285     PISSN: 00034878     EISSN: 14753162     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/annhyg/meq047     Document Type: Article

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