Particle exposures and infections

Infection

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 459-467

  Ghio, A J ^a,b  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b Human Studies Facility Campus Box 7315   (United States)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Meningitis; Particulate matter; Quartz; Smoking; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

IRON; TOBACCO SMOKE; PARTICULATE MATTER;

AIR POLLUTION; AMBIENT AIR; ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIOSIS; BIOMASS; BRONCHUS; BURN; DOSE RESPONSE; EXHAUST GAS; EXPOSURE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION; LARYNX; LUNG; MENINGITIS; MINING; NOSE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PHARYNX; PNEUMONIA; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; TRACHEA; TUBERCULOSIS; WOOD; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; MICROBIOLOGY; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS;

AIR MICROBIOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; PARTICULATE MATTER; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 84901648527     PISSN: 03008126     EISSN: 14390973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s15010-014-0592-6     Document Type: Review

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