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Biological Exposures

Biological Exposures is a construct in occupational epidemiology that refers to the measurable presence or level of biologically derived agents—such as microorganisms, allergens, endotoxins, or zoonotic pathogens—to which workers are exposed in the workplace, distinguished from chemical or physical exposures by their origin in living organisms or biological processes.

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‘Mendelian randomization’: can genetic epidemiology contribute to understanding environmental determinants of disease?*

George Davey Smith, Shah Ebrahim · International Journal of Epidemiology · 2003 · 6.4K citations

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Principles for characterizing the potential human health effects from exposure to nanomaterials: elements of a screening strategy

Günter Oberdörster, Andrew Maynard, Ken Donaldson et al. · Particle and Fibre Toxicology · 2005 · 2.1K citations · Full text

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Collapse of a fish population after exposure to a synthetic estrogen

Karen A. Kidd, Paul J. Blanchfield, Vince Palace et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2007 · 2.1K citations · Full text

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Exposure to Environmental Microorganisms and Childhood Asthma

Markus Ege, M. Mayer, Anne‐Cécile Normand et al. · New England Journal of Medicine · 2011 · 1.5K citations · Full text

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Comparative Toxicogenomics Database (CTD): update 2021

Allan Peter Davis, Cynthia Grondin, Robin J. Johnson et al. · Nucleic Acids Research · 2020 · 1.1K citations · Full text

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    Dale P. Sandler

    National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, United States

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    Philippe Grandjean

    University of Southern Denmark, Denmark

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    Melvin E. Andersen

    The Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences, United States

    11 publications · 581 citations

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    Stephen M. Rappaport

    University of California, Berkeley, United States

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    Roel Vermeulen

    Utrecht University, Netherlands

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  1. Environmental Protection Agency

    Washington, United States

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  2. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

    Atlanta, United States

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  3. National Cancer Institute

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  4. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

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  5. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

    Durham, United States

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    140 publications

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  6. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

    Chapel Hill, United States

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  7. National Institutes of Health

    Bethesda, United States

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  3. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

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