Protective effect of respiratory devices in farmers with occupational asthma
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Protective effect of respiratory devices in farmers with occupational asthma.
To the authors' knowledge there have been no previous reports on the protection afforded by powered filtering respirators in farmers with occupational asthma attributed to the inhalation of organic dust. In order to investigate this question, 26 farmers with occupational asthma were challenged with an exposure to work-related dusts for up to 60 min. This resulted in highly significant increases...
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عنوان ژورنال: European Respiratory Journal
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0000-0000,0903-1936
DOI: 10.1183/09031936.98.12030569