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Agricultural Workers Diseases

MedGen UID:
1792
Concept ID:
C0001828
Disease or Syndrome
Synonyms: Agricultural Worker Disease; Agricultural Worker Diseases; Agricultural Worker's Disease; Agricultural Worker's Diseases; Agricultural Workers Disease; Agricultural Workers' Disease; Agricultural Workers' Diseases; Disease, Agricultural Worker; Disease, Agricultural Worker's; Disease, Agricultural Workers'; Diseases, Agricultural Worker; Diseases, Agricultural Worker's; Diseases, Agricultural Workers'; Worker Disease, Agricultural; Worker Diseases, Agricultural; Worker's Disease, Agricultural; Worker's Diseases, Agricultural; Workers' Disease, Agricultural; Workers' Diseases, Agricultural

Definition

Diseases in persons engaged in cultivating and tilling soil, growing plants, harvesting crops, raising livestock, or otherwise engaged in husbandry and farming. The diseases are not restricted to farmers in the sense of those who perform conventional farm chores: the heading applies also to those engaged in the individual activities named above, as in those only gathering harvest or in those only dusting crops. [from MeSH]

Term Hierarchy

CClinical test,  RResearch test,  OOMIM,  GGeneReviews,  VClinVar  
  • CROGVAgricultural Workers Diseases

Professional guidelines

PubMed

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Recent clinical studies

Etiology

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Diagnosis

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Therapy

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Prognosis

Anakwue R
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Clinical prediction guides

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Recent systematic reviews

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