Occupational Asthma

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Sigsgaard, Torben (Editor), Heederik, Dick (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel : Birkhäuser Basel, 2010.
• Series: Progress in Inflammation Research
• Subjects: Medicine.; Immunology.; Pharmacology.; Allergy.; Respiratory organs > Diseases.; Occupational medicine.; Medicine & Public Health.; Occupational Medicine/Industrial Medicine.; Pneumology/Respiratory System.; Pharmacology/Toxicology.; Allergology.

Recent developments in the field of occupational asthma research and clinical practice are the topic of this volume. The contribution of occupational exposures to chemical and biological agents to the burden of asthma in adults is clearly described in an overview of the most recent epidemiological d...