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Document ID (ISN)28033
CIS number 77-1687
ISSN - Serial title 0010-5309 - Le concours médical
Year 1977
Convention or series no.
Author(s) Poirier R., Locher C., Kleisbauer J.P., Laval P.
Title Lung disease in agriculture
Original title Le poumon agricole. [in French]
Bibliographic information Apr. 1977, Vol.99, No.16, p.2491-2499. 17 ref.
Abstract Brief review of occupational lung disease among agricultural workers, covering: immunological hazard giving rise to various forms of precipitin-induced lung disease (clinical aspects, lung function deterioration, anatomo-pathological aspects, immunological criteria); poisoning hazard in the use of some insecticides, herbicides and fungicides (special reference to vineyard sprayer's lung, paraquat poisoning and effects of organophosphorus products); cancer hazard in the use of chlorinated hydrocarbons (insecticides), carbamates (insecticides and herbicides) and nitroquinolines (fungicides). The continuing problem of tuberculosis prevalent among agricultural workers is considered.
Descriptors (primary) lung diseases; agriculture; farmer's lung
Descriptors (secondary) herbicides; literature survey; tuberculosis; paraquat chloride; carcinogenic effects; insecticides; fungicides; vineyard sprayer's lung; organophosphorus compounds
Document type -
Subject(s) Occupational pathology
Broad subject area(s)
Browse category(ies) Diseases of the respiratory system (except for pneumoconiosis & similar)
Agriculture
Bacterial and parasitic diseases
Pneumoconioses