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Bellanger A, Berneron A, Canonge JM, Cure H, Desmaris R, Doly M, Donamaria C, Duban M, Favier B, Gayral M, Gilles-Afchain L, Grudé F, Hurgon A, Ollivier C, Paul M, Pons-Kerjean N, Rey JB, Robinson E. La vision des pharmaciens sur le Chemotherapy Foundation Symposium Compte rendu du congrès organisé à New York par le Mount Sinaï Hospital du 6 au 10 novembre 2012. ONCOLOGIE 2013. [DOI: 10.1007/s10269-012-2242-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Tate M, Robinson E, McDermott BJ, Grieve DJ. GLUCAGON-LIKE PEPTIDE-1 PROTECTS AGAINST CARDIAC DYSFUNCTION AND EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX REMODELLING IN EXPERIMENTAL DIABETES. BRITISH HEART JOURNAL 2012. [DOI: 10.1136/heartjnl-2012-303148a.3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Harvey AP, Robinson E, Simpson DA, McDermott BJ, Grieve DJ. INVESTIGATION OF MECHANISMS UNDERLYING THE INTERACTION BETWEEN NOX2 NADPH OXIDASE AND PPAR-α IN LEFT VENTRICULAR HYPERTROPHY. BRITISH HEART JOURNAL 2012. [DOI: 10.1136/heartjnl-2012-303148a.5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Wainiqolo I, Kool B, Kafoa B, Robinson E, Finau S, McCaig E, Ameratunga S. Kava use and risk of car crash injury: a population-based case control study in Fiji. Inj Prev 2012. [DOI: 10.1136/injuryprev-2012-040590r.7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Janjigian YY, Werner D, Pauligk C, Steinmetz K, Kelsen DP, Jäger E, Altmannsberger HM, Robinson E, Tafe LJ, Tang LH, Shah MA, Al-Batran SE. Prognosis of metastatic gastric and gastroesophageal junction cancer by HER2 status: a European and USA International collaborative analysis. Ann Oncol 2012; 23:2656-2662. [PMID: 22689179 DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mds104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 237] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Kool B, Sharpe S, Robinson E, Ameratunga S. THE EPIDEMIOLOGY OF CUTTING OR PIERCING INJURIES AT HOME AMONG YOUNG AND MIDDLE-AGED ADULTS. Inj Prev 2012. [DOI: 10.1136/injuryprev-2012-040580d.34] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Herman J, Ameratunga S, Kafoa B, Wainiqolo I, Robinson E, McCaig E, Connor J, Jackson R. DRIVER SLEEPINESS AND RISK OF MOTOR VEHICLE CRASH INJURIES: A POPULATION-BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY IN FIJI. Inj Prev 2012. [DOI: 10.1136/injuryprev-2012-040580g.7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Herman J, Ameratunga S, Wainiqolo I, Kafoa B, Robinson E, McCaig E, Jackson R. Prevalence of driving while sleepy: a population-based survey of four-wheeled motor vehicle drivers in Fiji. Inj Prev 2012. [DOI: 10.1136/injuryprev-2012-040590t.4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Robinson E, Rasmussen RA, Westberg HH, Holdren MW. Nonurban nonmethane low molecular weight hydrocarbon concentrations related to air mass identification. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2012. [DOI: 10.1029/jc078i024p05345] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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AIMS To determine whether a diabetes annual review, independently of other care processes, is followed by improved patient clinical measurements. METHODS Audits conducted independently of the diabetes annual review were analysed for a time-trend in patient clinical measures. An interaction variable between the review and the year of audit was used to test for a change in gradient before and after a diabetes annual review. Each patient formed their own control. RESULTS The data included 9471 audits on 3397 patients from 92 practices, and diabetes annual reviews from 2003 to mid-2008. Percentages of patients with raised HbA(1c) , systolic blood pressure and lipids improved from first to last audit. Predicted means after a diabetes annual review for HbA(1c) decreased by 0.13% (1.0 mmol/mol), for HDL cholesterol increased by 0.04 mmol/L and for triglyceride decreased by 0.2 mmol/L. Predicted systolic and diastolic blood pressure, total cholesterol and urinary albumin:creatinine ratio did not change significantly. CONCLUSIONS Metabolic control improved over time but this was largely independently of the diabetes annual review, which appears to add little clinical value to existing New Zealand general practice care processes. Currently, general practitioners are paid to undertake a diabetes annual review and report the measurements collected. We would argue that payment needs to be directed to demonstrating appropriate changes in clinical management or achieving meaningful clinical goals, and that the annual review results should be part of systematic feedback to general practitioners, particularly directed at clinical inertia.
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Savage PJ, Harvey AP, Robinson E, Grieve DJ. Investigation of endothelial nitric oxide (NO) signalling in response to the incretin hormone glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide (GIP). BMC Proc 2012. [PMCID: PMC3426030 DOI: 10.1186/1753-6561-6-s4-o38] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Harris-Roberts J, Tate P, Robinson E, Griffin P, Mason H, Barber C, Curran AD, Fishwick D. Bespoke latex allergen testing improves assessment of respiratory symptoms in textile-braiding workers. Am J Ind Med 2012; 55:616-23. [PMID: 22517590 DOI: 10.1002/ajim.22050] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 03/16/2012] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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BACKGROUND Latex allergy is poorly understood in latex-exposed textile workers. METHODS A cross-sectional study was carried out to better characterize respiratory symptoms, using personal breathing zone latex allergen measurement and specific IgE to latex allergens. RESULTS Forty-four of the 86 (51% participation rate) participated. Ten of 39 workers who gave a blood sample (25.6%) were found to have IgE to at least one workplace allergen (5/39 positive to either latex braiding coated with silica or talc, 4/39 were positive to the dyed cotton extract, and 1/39 to latex braiding coated with silica or talc and dyed cotton extract), whilst only 2 of these 10 had specific IgE to the commercial latex extract. CONCLUSIONS The presence of symptoms with evidence of sensitization was strongly dictated by current latex exposure. Bespoke workplace allergen IgE testing identified cases of WR respiratory symptoms with sensitization that otherwise would not have been identified.
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Janjigian YY, Werner D, Pauligk C, Steinmetz K, Kelsen DP, Jäger E, Altmannsberger HM, Robinson E, Tafe LJ, Tang LH, Shah MA, Al-Batran SE. Prognosis of metastatic gastric and gastroesophageal junction cancer by HER2 status: a European and USA International collaborative analysis. Ann Oncol 2012. [PMID: 22689179 DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mds104.] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND To determine whether human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) status is an independent prognostic factor in metastatic gastric and gastroesophageal junction (GEJ) adenocarcinoma. PATIENTS AND METHODS Formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tumor samples from 381 metastatic gastric/GEJ cancer patients enrolled at Krankenhaus Nordwest and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centers on six first-line trials of chemotherapy without trastuzumab were examined for HER2 by immunohistochemistry (IHC) and in situ hybridization (ISH). IHC 3+ or ISH-positive tumors were considered HER2 positive. RESULTS Seventy-eight of 381 patients (20%) had HER2-positive disease. In the multivariate logistic model, there were significantly higher rates of HER2 positivity in patients with liver metastasis (liver metastasis 31%; no liver metastasis 11%; P = 0.025) and intestinal histology (intestinal 33%; diffuse/mixed 8%; P = 0.001). No significant differences in HER2 positivity were found between resections and biopsies or primaries and metastases. Patients with HER2-positive gastric cancer had longer median overall survival compared with HER2-negative gastric cancer patients (13.9 versus 11.4 months, P = 0.047), but multivariate analysis indicated that HER2 status was not an independent prognostic factor (hazard ratio 0.79; 0.44-1.14; P = 0.194). CONCLUSIONS Approximately 20% of Western patients with metastatic gastric cancer are HER2 positive. Unlike breast cancer, HER2 positivity is not independently prognostic of patient outcome in metastatic gastric or GEJ.
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Harris-Roberts J, Robinson E, Fishwick D, Fourie A, Rees D, Spies A, Curran A, Sen D, Barber C. Sensitization and symptoms associated with soybean exposure in processing plants in South Africa. Am J Ind Med 2012; 55:458-64. [PMID: 22314699 DOI: 10.1002/ajim.22009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 12/15/2011] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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BACKGROUND Following the results of a previous study that highlighted the potential for significant levels of dust exposure in South African soybean processing plants, a clinical investigation was undertaken to study the respiratory health of workers in this industry. METHODS Workers from three soybean-processing plants were studied with a respiratory questionnaire and estimation of atopy and specific soybean IgE. RESULTS A total of 144 of the 181 (79.6% participation rate) plant employees completed the questionnaire and 136 (75.1%) gave blood samples for analysis of specific IgE. There was a significant association between work-related chest tightness (OR 4.0 [95% CI 1.3-12.6]), work-related nasal symptoms (OR 4.3 [95% CI 1.3-14.6]) and cough or chest tightness after handling soybean (OR 3.6 [95% CI 1.1-11.6]) and soybean sensitization. There was a significant association between current exposure to dust during soybean off-loading and "flu-like" illness (OR 2.7 [95% CI 1.0-7.2]), and cough or chest tightness after such work (OR 7.4 [95% CI 2.4-23.6]). The strongest predictor of work related nasal symptoms was sensitization to soybean, the latter strongly predicted by the presence of atopy (OR 34.7 [95% CI 6.6-182.5]). CONCLUSIONS Exposure and sensitization to soybean were associated with the presence of work related symptoms, including flu-like symptoms, cough, chest tightness, and nasal symptoms. The aetiology of these symptoms and more particularly the best intervention strategies require more detailed investigation.
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Krebs JD, Elley CR, Parry-Strong A, Lunt H, Drury PL, Bell DA, Robinson E, Moyes SA, Mann JI. The Diabetes Excess Weight Loss (DEWL) Trial: a randomised controlled trial of high-protein versus high-carbohydrate diets over 2 years in type 2 diabetes. Diabetologia 2012; 55:905-14. [PMID: 22286528 DOI: 10.1007/s00125-012-2461-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 93] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2011] [Accepted: 12/20/2011] [Indexed: 10/14/2022]
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AIMS/HYPOTHESIS To compare the effectiveness of low-fat high-protein and low-fat high-carbohydrate dietary advice on weight loss, using group-based interventions, among overweight people with type 2 diabetes. Study design Multicentre parallel (1:1) design, blinded randomised controlled trial. METHODS Individuals with type 2 diabetes aged 30–75 years and a BMI >27 kg/m2 were randomised, by an independent statistician using sequentially numbered sealed envelopes, to be prescribed either a low-fat high-protein (30% of energy as protein, 40% as carbohydrate, 30% as fat) or a low-fat high carbohydrate(15% of energy as protein, 55%as carbohydrate,30% as fat) diet. Participants attended 18 group sessions over 12 months. Primary outcomes were change in weight and waist circumference assessed at baseline, 6 and 12 months.Secondary outcomes were body fatness, glycaemic control,lipid profile, blood pressure and renal function. A further assessment was undertaken 12 months after the intervention.Research assessors remained blinded to group allocation throughout. Intention-to-treat analysis was performed. RESULTS A total of 419 participants were enrolled (mean±SDage 58±9.5 years,BMI 36.6±6.5 kg/m2 and HbA1c 8.1±1.2%(65 mmol/mol)). The study was completed by 70%(294/419).No differences between groups were found in change in weight or waist circumference during the intervention phase or the 12-month follow-up. Both groups had lost weight (2–3 kg, p<0.001) and reduced their waist circumference (2–3 cm, p<0.001) by 12 months and largely maintained this weight loss for the following 12 months. By 6 months, the difference in self-reported dietary protein between groups was small (1.1%total energy; p<0.001). No significant differences between groups were found in secondary outcomes: body fatness, HbA1c, lipids, blood pressure and renal function.There were no important adverse effects. CONCLUSIONS/INTERPRETATION In a 'real-world' setting, prescription of an energy-reduced low-fat diet, with either increased protein or carbohydrate, results in similar modest losses in weight and waist circumference over 2 years
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Mahapatra S, Robinson E, Herrick C, Albrecht M, Dittrich A. Increased Number of Regulatory T cells in Skin Draining Lymph Nodes Suppress Priming Towards New Antigens. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2012. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2011.12.453] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/14/2022]
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Fishwick D, Harris-Roberts J, Robinson E, Evans G, Barraclough R, Sen D, Curran AD. Impact of worker education on respiratory symptoms and sensitization in bakeries. Occup Med (Lond) 2011; 61:321-7. [PMID: 21831816 DOI: 10.1093/occmed/kqr116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Flour exposure is known to cause significant respiratory problems. AIMS To investigate the development of work-related sensitization, the period between first exposure and the development of symptoms (latent period) and the impact of workplace training programmes on respiratory health in plant bakers. METHODS Two hundred and sixty-four bakers were investigated by assessing work-related respiratory symptoms and latent period before symptoms/sensitization, spirometry and testing for an array of workplace-specific IgE. RESULTS There was a significant relationship between the presence of work-related respiratory symptoms and flour dust allergen-specific IgE. Latent periods varied widely: median for work-related nasal symptoms 36 months, cough 42 months and chest tightness 120 months. Latent periods were shorter for workers with evidence of flour sensitization (work-related wheeze: mean 13 months with sensitization, 97 months without, P < 0.05, work-related nasal symptoms, respectively; mean 19 months, 71 months, P < 0.01). Those warned of the health implications of flour dust had less work-related wheeze (warned; 1%, not warned 11%, P < 0.05). There was an excess of work-related symptoms and work-related-specific IgE combined in those who had not been warned of these health implications (12 versus 1%, P <0.01). CONCLUSIONS Reporting of 'being warned' of potential health implications from breathing flour dust protected strongly against the reporting of important health end points. Latent periods for the development of work-related symptoms varied widely. Simple health messages, which may be overlooked in worker training programmes, can have significant benefits for worker health in the bakery population.
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Robinson E, Jerrett AR, Black SE, Davison W. Visual acuity of snapper Pagrus auratus: effect of size and spectral composition. JOURNAL OF FISH BIOLOGY 2011; 79:1883-1894. [PMID: 22141893 DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8649.2011.03130.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Visual acuity of the commercially important sparid Pagrus auratus was tested using the optomotor response. Juvenile fish were categorized by size as group 1 (50 g), group 2 (100 g), group 3 (150 g), group 4 (300 g), group 5 (500 g) and group 6 (800 g). Group 3 fish demonstrated excellent visual acuity (minimum separable angle, M(SA), 1°), which was improved compared with the smaller fish groups (groups 1 and 2, M(SA), 2°). In the larger fish groups, however, a reduction in visual acuity was observed (groups 4, 5 and 6 M(SA), 4°). Group 2 (100 g) fish displayed positive optomotor responses in long wavelength light (red) but reduced responses in short wavelengths (blue). Red light sensitivity is beneficial for the estuarine lifestyle of these fish, where light is predominantly at long wavelengths. In contrast, group 6 (800 g) fish displayed improved acuity in blue and green light and reduced acuity in red light. Fish of this size move away from the estuary to open oceans, where light is predominantly in the shorter wavelengths (blue-green). These results support the sensitivity hypothesis for the relationship between fish visual systems and the light environment they inhabit.
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Utter J, Scragg R, Robinson E, Warbrick J, Faeamani G, Foroughian S, Dewes O, Moodie M, Swinburn BA. Evaluation of the Living 4 Life project: a youth-led, school-based obesity prevention study. Obes Rev 2011; 12 Suppl 2:51-60. [PMID: 22008559 DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-789x.2011.00905.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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The Living 4 Life study was a youth-led, school-based intervention to reduce obesity in New Zealand. The study design was quasi-experimental, with comparisons made by two cross-sectional samples within schools. Student data were collected at baseline (n=1634) and at the end of the 3-year intervention (n=1612). A random-effects mixed model was used to test for changes in primary outcomes (e.g. anthropometry and obesity-related behaviours) between intervention and comparison schools. There were no significant differences in changes in anthropometry or behaviours between intervention and comparison schools. The prevalence of obesity in intervention schools was 32% at baseline and 35% at follow-up and in comparison schools was 29% and 30%, respectively. Within-school improvements in obesity-related behaviours were observed in three intervention schools and one comparison school. One intervention school observed several negative changes in student behaviours. In conclusion, there were no significant improvements to anthropometry; this may reflect the intervention's lack of intensity, insufficient duration, or that by adolescence changes in anthropometry and related behaviours are difficult to achieve. School-based obesity prevention interventions that actively involve young people in the design of interventions may result in improvements in student behaviours, but require active support from leaders within their schools.
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Robinson E, Cassidy RS, McDermott BJ, Green BD, Grieve DJ. 49 Glucagon-like peptide-1 protects against cardiac remodelling after myocardial infarction via specific actions on the extracellular matrix. BRITISH HEART JOURNAL 2011. [DOI: 10.1136/heartjnl-2011-300920b.49] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Harvey AP, Robinson E, McDermott BJ, Grieve DJ. 38 Does interaction between peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor- and NADPH oxidases play an important role in regulating pressure-overload cardiac hypertrophy? BRITISH HEART JOURNAL 2011. [DOI: 10.1136/heartjnl-2011-300920b.38] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Adisesh A, Robinson E, D. Curran A. Climate change: enabling a better working Britain for the next 100 years. Occup Med (Lond) 2011; 61:292-4. [DOI: 10.1093/occmed/kqr050] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Barber CM, Burton C, Robinson E, Crook B, Evans G, Fishwick D. Hypersensitivity pneumonitis and metalworking fluids contaminated by mycobacteria. Eur Respir J 2011; 38:486-7; author reply 487-8. [DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00027611] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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