Occupational asthma in a steel coating plant.
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Occupational asthma in a steel coating plant.
An outbreak of occupational asthma, of unknown cause and extent, was detected in a steel coating plant. In 1979 a cross-sectional study which defined occupational asthma in terms of respiratory symptoms detected 21 people with suggestive symptoms among the 221 studied. They all worked in the coating shop, but the plastic coatings used at the plant contained many potential sensitising agents tha...
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عنوان ژورنال: Occupational and Environmental Medicine
سال: 1985
ISSN: 1351-0711
DOI: 10.1136/oem.42.8.517