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Table 1 Summary of reviewed publications on quats and asthma

From: Methodological evaluation of human research on asthmagenicity and occupational cleaning: a case study of quaternary ammonium compounds (“quats”)

References

Study type

Study location

Quats exposure

Burge and Richardson [35]

Single case report/SIC study

UK

Lauryl dimethyl BAC

Bernstein et al. [34]

Single case report/SIC study

USA

BAC

Purohit et al. [39]

Three case reports/SIC studies

France

BAC

Rosenman et al. [51]

Four case reports

USA

ADBAC, DDAC, quaternary ammonium salts

Quinn et al. [33]

Four case reports

USA

ADBAC, DDAC

Vandenplas et al. [53]

Case series [44 subjects]/SIC studies

Belgium

QAC

Bellier et al. [48]

Case series [22 subjects]/SIC studies

France

DDAC, ADBAC, didecylmethyl ammonium propionate, BAC, bis-aminopropyl-laurylamine, amine oxide

Rosenman et al. [51]

Analysis of the SENSOR database

USA

Quaternary ammonia

Mehler et al.

Analysis of the SENSOR database

USA

QAC

Paris et al. [50]

Analysis of the National Occupational Health Surveillance Network

France

QAC

Massin et al. [45]

Cross-sectional study of food industry workers

France

QAC

Gonzalez et al. [36]

Cross-sectional study of health care workers

France

QAC

Dumas et al. [49]

Cross-sectional study of hospital workers

France

QAC

Weber et al. [40]

Retrospective cohort study of persons employed in a large health care system

USA

Not specified

Preller et al. [62]

Cross-sectional study of pig farmers

Netherlands

QAC

Vogelzang et al. [44, 54, 55]

Cross-sectional studies of pig farmers

Netherlands

QAC

Smit et al. [52]

Cross-sectional studies of conventional and organic farmers

Netherlands

QAC

  1. ADBAC alkyl dimethyl benzyl ammonium chloride, BAC benzalkonium chloride, DDAC didecyl dimethyl ammonium chloride, QAC quaternary ammonium compound