Occupational asthma in a factory with a contaminated humidifier.
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Occupational asthma in a factory with a contaminated humidifier.
Thirty five printers who had work related wheeze, chest tightness, or breathlessness kept two hourly records of their peak expiratory flow for at least two weeks. They all worked in a factory supplied by air from contaminated humidifiers. The peak flow records showed consistent work related deterioration in 15 workers, nine of whom had a diurnal variation in peak flow exceeding 20%. Ten workers...
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عنوان ژورنال: Thorax
سال: 1985
ISSN: 0040-6376
DOI: 10.1136/thx.40.4.248