Immunologic responses to inhaled cotton dust.
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Immunologic responses to inhaled cotton dust.
Byssinosis, a respiratory disease of workers on cotton, flax, and soft hemp, is classically characterized as shortness of breath, cough, and chest tightness on Mondays or the first day of return to work after a time off. Exposure to these vegetable dusts can also result in other respiratory diseases, and the term cotton dust-induced respiratory disease (CDIRD) is introduced. Although clinically...
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عنوان ژورنال: Environmental Health Perspectives
سال: 1986
ISSN: 0091-6765,1552-9924
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.866617