S4 Occupational asthma; is this the cause of excess respiratory symptoms and COPD described in bitumen exposed workers?
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عنوان ژورنال: Thorax
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0040-6376
DOI: 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2011-201054b.4