Exposure, symptoms and airway inflammation among sewage workers

Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 263-268

  Heldal, Kari Kulvik ^a   Madsø, Lene ^a   Huser, Per Ole ^a   Eduard, Wijnand ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Acoustic rhinometry; Endotoxins; Lung function; Nitric oxide; Sewage dust

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; ENDOTOXIN; NITRIC OXIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DUST; EXPIRED AIR; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; FORCED VITAL CAPACITY; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MALE; NOSE IRRITATION; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PREVALENCE; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RHINOMETRY; SEWAGE; SPIROMETRY; WORKER; AIR POLLUTANT; BREATH ANALYSIS; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT ALLERGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

ADULT; AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; BREATH TESTS; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NITRIC OXIDE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; RESPIRATORY HYPERSENSITIVITY; SEWAGE;

EID: 79955028280     PISSN: 12321966     EISSN: 18982263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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