Estimates of historical exposures by phase contrast and transmission electron microscopy for pooled exposure - Response analyses of North Carolina and South Carolina, USA asbestos textile cohorts

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 68, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 593-598

  Dement, John M ^a   Loomis, Dana ^b   Richardson, David ^c   Wolf, Susanne H ^c   Kuempel, Eileen D ^d  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASBESTOS;

AIRBORNE PARTICLE; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIBER; HISTORICAL RESEARCH; MEMBRANE FILTER; NONHUMAN; PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; UNITED STATES;

AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ASBESTOS; COHORT STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MICROSCOPY, PHASE-CONTRAST; MINERAL FIBERS; NORTH CAROLINA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PARTICLE SIZE; SOUTH CAROLINA; TEXTILE INDUSTRY;

EID: 79960082380     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2010.059972     Document Type: Article

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