OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE IN JAPAN
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Occupational asthma in Japan
Research into occupational asthma (OA) in Japan has been led by the Japanese Society of Occupational and Environmental Allergy. The first report about allergic OA identified konjac asthma. After that, many kinds of OA have been reported. Cases of some types of OA, such as konjac asthma and sea squirt asthma, have been dramatically reduced by the efforts of medical personnel. Recently, with the ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Occupational Medicine
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0962-7480,1471-8405
DOI: 10.1093/occmed/kqn088