title: Occupational asthma: new deleterious agents at the workplace.
abstract: This article summarizes the main new categories of occupational agents responsible for causing occupational asthma, with and without a latency period reported in the last 10 years. It also reports examples of occupational agents for which the fabrication processing or use have influenced the outcome of occupational asthma.
authors.affiliation: Chest Department, Sacré-Coeur Hospital, Montreal, 5400 Gouin Ouest, Montreal, Quebec H4J 1C5, Canada. catherine.lemiere@umontreal.ca
authors.forename: Catherine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Lemiere
authors.forename: Jacques
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ameille
authors.forename: Piera
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Boschetto
authors.forename: Manon
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Labrecque
authors.forename: Jacques-André
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Pralong
mesh_terms: D059366:Asthma, Occupational / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007221:Industry; D011159:Population Surveillance; D017132:Workplace