Post-hire asthma among insect-rearing workers

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 310-317

  Suarthana, Eva ^a,b,c   Shen, Angela ^a   Henneberger, Paul K ^a   Kreiss, Kathleen ^a   Leppla, Norman C ^d   Bueller, David ^a   Lewis, Daniel M ^a   Bledsoe, Toni A ^a   Janotka, Erika ^a   Petsonk, Edward L ^a  

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

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INDONESIA   (Indonesia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN E;

ADULT; ALLERGY; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; INCIDENCE; INSECT REARING WORKER; LEPIDOPTERA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PEST CONTROL; POSTHIRE ASTHMA; PRICK TEST; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIZATION; WORKER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; ASTHMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INCIDENCE; INSECTS; LEPIDOPTERA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW RATE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; QUESTIONNAIRES; YOUNG ADULT;

HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA;

EID: 84859749006     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: 15365948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JOM.0b013e31823fe098     Document Type: Article

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