Publications by authors named "Randy J Boylstein"
Article Synopsis
- * Human and environmental microbiota were analyzed, finding a significant microbial similarity between MWF and affected workers' lung tissues, especially in those from the machine shop area.
- * The study suggests that exposure to MWF may cause harmful health effects, evidenced by increased B-cell proliferation in lab mice and the presence of harmful microbes in affected workers, indicating a public health concern.
Objectives: Four machine manufacturing facility workers had a novel occupational lung disease of uncertain aetiology characterised by lymphocytic bronchiolitis, alveolar ductitis and emphysema (BADE). We aimed to evaluate current workers' respiratory health in relation to job category and relative exposure to endotoxin, which is aerosolised from in-use metalworking fluid.
Methods: We offered a questionnaire and spirometry at baseline and 3.
Background: A cluster of severe lung disease occurred at a manufacturing facility making industrial machines. We aimed to describe disease features and workplace exposures.
Methods: Clinical, functional, radiologic, and histopathologic features were characterized.
Objectives: To better understand respiratory symptoms and lung function in flavouring manufacturing workers.
Methods: We offered a questionnaire and lung function testing to the current workforce of a flavouring manufacturing facility that had transitioned away from diacetyl and towards substitutes in recent years. We examined symptoms, spirometric parameters and diffusing capacity measurements by exposure variables, including facility tenure and time spent daily in production areas.