Asthma-like symptoms, atopy, and bronchial responsiveness in furniture workers

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 55, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 786-791

  Talini, Donatella ^b,d   Monteverdi, Andrea ^c   Benvenuti, Alessandra ^a   Petrozzino, Marina ^a   Di Pede, Francesco ^a   Lemmi, Maria ^c   Carletti, Anna ^a   Macchioni, Paola ^a   Serretti, Nadi ^b   Viegi, Giovanni ^a   Paggiaro, Pierluigi ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c Occupational Medicine   (Italy)

^d UO ISLL ASI No 5   (Italy)

Author keywords

Furniture workers; Occupational asthma; Toluene diisocyanate; Wood dust

Indexed keywords

ISOCYANATE; TOLUENE;

ADULT; AEROSOL; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; ATOPY; COUGHING; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; FURNITURE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PREVALENCE; PRICK TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SPIROMETRY; WHEEZING; WOOD DUST; WORKPLACE;

EID: 7844225896     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.55.11.786     Document Type: Article

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