Characterization of endotoxin collected on California dairies using personal and area-based sampling methods

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 580-591

  Garcia, John ^a   Bennett, Deborah H ^a   Tancredi, Daniel J ^a   Schenker, Marc B ^a   Mitchell, Diane C ^a   Reynolds, Stephen J ^b   Silva, Rona ^a   Dooley, Gregory P ^b   Mehaffy, John ^b   Mitloehner, Frank M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

3 OHFA; Agriculture; Dairy; Endotoxin; Particulate matter

Indexed keywords

ENDOTOXIN; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE;

AIR POLLUTANT; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DAIRYING; HUMAN; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PARTICULATE MATTER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; UNITED STATES;

AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; CALIFORNIA; DAIRYING; ENDOTOXINS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HUMANS; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PARTICULATE MATTER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 84867173744     PISSN: 15459624     EISSN: 15459632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15459624.2012.713301     Document Type: Article

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