Work-Related Asthma in Automobile Spray Painters: Two Case Reports
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Work-related asthma in automobile spray painters: two case reports.
This report describes two patients who had developed asthma after working as automobile painters with isocyanate-based aerosol paint for two years or over. In both patients asthma was confirmed using the standard diagnostic procedure. One of the subjects was atopic. One was ex-smoker and the other had never smoked. Neither had a family history of asthma. The symptoms occurred after workplace ex...
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Dr. Susan M. Tarlo graduated from the Medical School of the London University, England, in 1969. She did post-graduate training in internal medicine at Westminster and Bromptom hospitals in the UK and residencies in allergy and clinical immunology and respiratory medicine at Queen’s University and McMaster University in Ontario. She joined the University of Toronto faculty in 1977 and currently...
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Industrial Hygiene and Toxicology
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0004-1254
DOI: 10.2478/10004-1254-59-2008-1858