Occupational asthma caused by exposure to neurospora in a plywood factory worker.
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Occupational asthma caused by exposure to neurospora in a plywood factory worker.
A 24 year old man developed severe asthma two years after starting to work in a plywood plant. Four years later the patient had to stop working because of the increasing severity of his asthma. Three months after leaving his job, the patient's asthma was greatly improved. His job consisted of placing plywood sheets into a drying machine. The plywood sheets had stayed outside in wet conditions f...
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عنوان ژورنال: Occupational and Environmental Medicine
سال: 1991
ISSN: 1351-0711
DOI: 10.1136/oem.48.4.279