Occupational exposure of a medical school staff to formaldehyde in Tehran

Tanaffos

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 36-41

  Azari, Mansour R ^a,b   Hosseini, Vajihe ^a   Jafari, Mohammad Javad ^a   Soori, Hamid ^b   Asadi, Parisa ^a  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Formaldehyde; Personal monitoring; Respiratory symptoms

Indexed keywords

FORMALDEHYDE;

AIR ANALYSIS; AIR SAMPLING; ARTICLE; BURNING SENSATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; EYE IRRITATION; HUMAN; IRAN; LABORATORY PERSONNEL; NASAL PRURITUS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RHINORRHEA; SELF REPORT; THROAT IRRITATION;

EID: 84866244782     PISSN: 17350344     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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