Occupational Asthma. New Deleterious Agents at the Workplace

Clinics in Chest Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 519-530

  Lemiere, Catherine ^a   Ameille, Jacques ^b   Boschetto, Piera ^c   Labrecque, Manon ^a   Pralong, Jacques André ^d  

^a HÔPITAL DU SACRÉ COEUR DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

High molecular weight agents; Irritant agents; Irritant induced asthma; Low molecular weight agents; Occupational agents; Occupational asthma; RADS

Indexed keywords

7 AMINOCEPHALOSPORANIC ACID; ALLERGEN; BIOCIDE; CEFTERAM; COLISTIN; ESCIN; FUNGICIDE; ISOCYANATE; ISOFLURANE; LATEX; MESALAZINE; METAL; MITOXANTRONE; PROTEINASE; SEVOFLURANE; THIAMINE; THIAMPHENICOL; VANCOMYCIN;

ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ARTHROPOD; CEREAL; CLEANING; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG SAFETY; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; FISHERY; FLOUR; FOOD INDUSTRY; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL ASTHMA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PEST ORGANISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; VEGETABLE; WOOD DUST; WORKPLACE;

ASTHMA, OCCUPATIONAL; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INDUSTRY; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; WORKPLACE;

EID: 84865558948     PISSN: 02725231     EISSN: 15578216     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ccm.2012.06.003     Document Type: Review

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