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Hypersensitivity pneumonitis due to metal working fluids: Sporadic or under reported?

Machine operators using MWF in three different automobile part manufacturing plants

MWF contaminated with mycobacteria

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Substances or ancillary products

Innovation Processes

Different sites in relationship to the tasks performed

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Aerosol mapping of a facility with multiple cases of hypersensitivity pneumonitis: demonstration of mist reduction and a possible dose/response relationship

Workers involved in different tasks, sharing the exposure to MWF in machining processes.

MWF mists

Environmental spread. No additional cases

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Poor working conditions

Different sites in relationship to the tasks performed

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An outbreak of occupational textile dye dermatitis from disperse blue 106

Workers wearing a working uniform

Dye disperse blue 106 and 124

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Working uniform

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Clinical investigation of an outbreak of alveolitis and asthma in a car engine manufacturing plant

Workers involved in the machining or washing of metal pieces operations

Exposure to aerosols of contaminated MWF (Acinetobacter spp and Ochrobacter anthropic)

Additional cases due to an environmental spread of the agent

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-

Different sites in relationship to the tasks performed

31

An outbreak of occupational asthma due to chromium and cobalt

Workers involved in milling, turning and grinding metal pieces

MWF contaminated with chromium and cobalt

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Substances or ancillary products

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Different sites in relationship to tasks performed