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Pulmonary fibrosis following household exposure to asbestos dust?

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology, November 2014
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Title
Pulmonary fibrosis following household exposure to asbestos dust?
Published in
Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology, November 2014
DOI 10.1186/s12995-014-0039-0
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Joachim Schneider, Bernd Brückel, Ludger Fink, Hans-Joachim Woitowitz

Abstract

An 81-year-old woman was dying from histologically confirmed pulmonary fibrosis without having had any asbestos exposure in the workplace. The lung dust fibre analysis showed significantly increased "asbestos bodies" (AB) (2,640 AB per gram of wet lung tissue) and asbestos fibre concentrations (8,600,000 amphibole fibres of all lengths and 540,000 amphibole fibres with a length ≥5 μm per gram of dry lung tissue). Asbestos exposure was revealed to have occurred during household contact after 27 years of washing her husband's industrial clothing that had been contaminated by asbestos at his workplace in an asbestos textile factory. Household asbestos dust exposure as a risk or co-factor in the aetiology of the fatal pulmonary fibrosis is discussed.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 15 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Other 2 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 13%
Student > Master 2 13%
Professor 1 7%
Unspecified 1 7%
Other 1 7%
Unknown 6 40%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 2 13%
Unspecified 1 7%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 7%
Environmental Science 1 7%
Social Sciences 1 7%
Other 1 7%
Unknown 8 53%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 29 November 2014.
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#15,310,749
of 22,771,140 outputs
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#211
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#214,163
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#2
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