Epidemiologic investigation of an occupational illness of tobacco harvesters in southern Brazil, a worldwide leader in tobacco production

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 69, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 514-518

  Bartholomay, Patrícia ^a   Iser, Betine Pinto Moehlecke ^a   De Oliveira, Patrícia Pereira Vasconcelos ^a   Dos Santos, Tania Esther Herc Holmer ^b   Malta, Deborah Carvalho ^a   Sobel, Jeremy ^c   De Moura, Lenildo ^a  

^a MINISTÉRIO DA SAÚDE   (Brazil)

^b State Health Secretariat   (Brazil)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COTININE;

ADULT; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIZZINESS; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MALE; NAUSEA; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING HABIT; TOBACCO; TOBACCO INDUSTRY; VOMITING; WEAKNESS;

ADULT; AGRICULTURAL WORKERS' DISEASES; BRAZIL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COTININE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NICOTINE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OWNERSHIP; PLANT LEAVES; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SMOKING; TOBACCO; YOUNG ADULT;

CANDELARIA; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 84862571926     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oemed-2011-100307     Document Type: Article

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