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The incidence of occupational asthma is continuously increasing in many working populations: in workers engaged in polyurethane-foam production and in other plastics industries, in the wood and furniture industries, in drug production and other chemical plants, in agriculture and the food industries (for instance, among bakers), and so on.
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Sartorelli, E. (1982). Injury by Isocyanates. In: Bonsignore, G., Cumming, G. (eds) The Lung in Its Environment. Ettore Majorana International Science Series, vol 6. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-3971-7_29
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