Cotton Dust in Relation to Byssinosis: Part II: Skin Tests for Allergy with Extracts of Cotton Dust
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Studies on cotton dust in relation to byssinosis. I. Bacteria and fungi in cotton dust.
There is general agreement that byssinosis is associated with the inhalation of cotton dust. Good descriptions of the disease have been given by the Home Office Departmental Committee on Dust in Card Rooms in their report (1932), by Prausnitz (1936), and by Schilling (1950). An extensive and complete review of the literature on cotton dust in relation to affections of the respiratory tract has ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Occupational and Environmental Medicine
سال: 1952
ISSN: 1351-0711
DOI: 10.1136/oem.9.3.186