Occupational exposure to airborne fungi in two Croatian sawmills and atopy in exposed workers

Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 213-219

  Klarić, Maja Šegvić ^a   Varnai, Veda Marija ^b   Čalus̀ić, Anita Ljubišić ^b   Macan, Jelena ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH AND OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Airborne fungi; Atopy; Chrysonilia; Paecilomyces; Penicillium; Sawmills; Skin prick test

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; FUNGUS ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; PENICILLIN G; STREPTOMYCIN;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTION; AIRBORNE FUNGUS; ALTERNARIA ALTERNATA; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; ASTHMA; ATOPY; CLADOSPORIUM; CLADOSPORIUM HERBARUM; COLONY FORMING UNIT; COUGHING; CROATIA; FEMALE; FUNGAL CONTAMINATION; FUNGAL DETECTION; FUNGUS CULTURE; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOULD; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PENICILLIUM NOTATUM; PRICK TEST; RHINITIS; RHIZOPUS; RHIZOPUS NIGRICANS; TOXIC INHALATION; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

ADULT; AIR MICROBIOLOGY; AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ALLERGENS; ANTIGENS, FUNGAL; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; CROATIA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; FUNGI; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY, IMMEDIATE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; SKIN TESTS; YOUNG ADULT;

ALTERNARIA ALTERNATA; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; CHRYSONILIA; DAVIDIELLA TASSIANA; FAGUS; FUNGI; PENICILLIUM; PENICILLIUM CHRYSOGENUM; RHIZOPUS STOLONIFER;

EID: 84863536398     PISSN: 12321966     EISSN: 18982263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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