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Overview

Xaver Baur is affiliated with Universität Hamburg in Germany and specializes in medicine, with a particular focus on pulmonary and respiratory medicine, public health, environmental and occupational health, health toxicology and mutagenesis, physical therapy and sports therapy rehabilitation, and general health professions. Their research predominantly addresses topics related to occupational and environmental lung diseases, occupational exposure and asthma, air quality and health impacts, interstitial lung diseases and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, indoor air quality and microbial exposure, medical practices and rehabilitation, as well as broader health and medical studies.

The scientist has published extensively, contributing to 35 works in the field of medicine. Key recent publications include:

  • [Guideline for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Asthma - Addendum 2020 - Guideline of the German Respiratory Society and the German Atemwegsliga in Cooperation with the Paediatric Respiratory Society and the Austrian Society of Pneumology], 2021, PubMed
  • Health consequences of exposure to aircraft contaminated air and fume events: a narrative review and medical protocol for the investigation of exposed aircrew and passengers, 2023, Environmental Health
  • Outdoor air pollution from industrial chemicals causing new onset of asthma or COPD: a systematic review protocol, 2020, Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology
  • Ongoing downplaying of the carcinogenicity of chrysotile asbestos by vested interests, 2021, Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology
  • The Relationship Between Potential Occupational Sensitizing Exposures and Asthma: An Overview of Systematic Reviews, 2022, Annals of Work Exposures and Health

Frequent co-authors working with Xaver Baur include:

  • Colin L. Soskolne (4 joint publications)
  • Arthur L. Frank (4 joint publications)
  • Lygia Therese Budnik (3 joint publications)
  • Annett Dalbøge (3 joint publications)
  • Henrik Albert Kolstad (3 joint publications)

Publication venues where Xaver Baur's research commonly appears are:

  • Pneumologie (5 publications)
  • The Journal of Scientific Practice and Integrity (3 publications)
  • Environmental Health (2 publications)
  • Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology (2 publications)
  • PubMed (1 publication)

Best Publications

  • Multi-ethnic reference values for spirometry for the 3–95-yr age range: the global lung function 2012 equations

    Philip H. Quanjer;Sanja Stanojevic;Tim J. Cole;Xaver Baur

  • Latex-specific proteins causing immediate-type cutaneous, nasal, bronchial, and systemic reactions.

    Doris Jaeger;Dieter Kleinhans;Adam B. Czuppon;Xaver Baur

  • Guidelines for the management of work-related asthma

    X. Baur;T. Sigsgaard;T.B. Aasen;P.S. Burge

  • The rubber elongation factor of rubber trees (Hevea brasiliensis) is the major allergen in latex

    Adam B. Czuppon;Z. Chen;Stefan Rennert;Thomas Engelke

  • Reduction of latex aeroallergens and latex-specific IgE antibodies in sensitized workers after removal of powdered natural rubber latex gloves in a hospital

    Henning Allmers;Randolph Brehler;Zhipping Chen;Monika Raulf-Heimsoth

  • Identification of wheat flour allergens by means of 2-dimensional immunoblotting

    Ingrid Sander;Angelika Flagge;Rolf Merget;Thomas M. Halder

  • S2k-Leitlinie zur Diagnostik und Therapie von Patienten mit Asthma

    R. Buhl;R. Bals;X. Baur;D. Berdel

  • Baker's asthma: still among the most frequent occupational respiratory disorders.

    Xaver Baur;Paul O. Degens;Ingrid Sander

  • Can a threshold limit value for natural rubber latex airborne allergens be defined

    Xaver Baur;Zhiping Chen;Henning Allmers

  • IgE binding of the recombinant allergen soybean profilin (rGly m 3) is mediated by conformational epitopes.

    Hans-Peter Rihs;Zhiping Chen;Franziska Ruëff;Arnd Petersen

  • Characterization and identification of latex allergens by two-dimensional electrophoresis and protein microsequencing

    Anton Posch;Zhiping Chen;Colin Wheeler;Mike J. Dunn

  • Relation between occupational asthma case history, bronchial methacholine challenge, and specific challenge test in patients with suspected occupational asthma.

    X. Baur;H. Huber;P.O. Degens;H. Allmers

  • Use of immunoblot technique for detection of human IgE and IgG antibodies to individual silk proteins

    Mahmoud Dewair;Xaver Baur;Klaus Ziegler

  • Identification of hevein (Hev b 6.02) in Hevea latex as a major cross-reacting allergen with avocado fruit in patients with latex allergy

    Zhiping Chen;Anton Posch;Reinhold Cremer;Monika Raulf-Heimsoth

  • Exposure–response relationships of occupational inhalative allergens

    X Baur;Z Chen;V Liebers

  • Isolation and identification of hevein as a major IgE-binding polypeptide in Hevea latex

    Zhiping Chen;Anton Posch;Christiane Lohaus;Monika Raulf-Heimsoth

  • Bronchial asthma and COPD due to irritants in the workplace - an evidence-based approach

    Xaver Baur;Prudence Bakehe;Henning Vellguth

  • Allergy to Aspergillus-derived enzymes in the baking industry : Identification of β-xylosidase from Aspergillus niger as a new allergen (Asp n 14)

    Ingrid Sander;Monika Raulf-Heimsoth;Christoph Siethoff;Christiane Lohaus

  • Characterized allergens causing bakers' asthma

    X. Baur;A. Posch

  • On the allergenicity of Hev b 1 among health care workers and patients with spina bifida allergic to natural rubber latex

    Zhiping Chen;Reinhold Cremer;Anton Posch;Monika Raulf-Heimsoth

  • Class I endochitinase containing a hevein domain is the causative allergen in latex-associated avocado allergy.

    A Posch;C H Wheeler;Z Chen;A Flagge

Frequent Co-Authors

Dennis Nowak
Dennis Nowak Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Dick Heederik
Dick Heederik Utrecht University
Claus Vogelmeier
Claus Vogelmeier Philipp University of Marburg
Tim J. Cole
Tim J. Cole University College London
Philip J. Landrigan
Philip J. Landrigan Boston College
Torben Sigsgaard
Torben Sigsgaard Aarhus University
Helmut E. Meyer
Helmut E. Meyer Ruhr University Bochum
Janet Stocks
Janet Stocks University College London
Claudia Traidl-Hoffmann
Claudia Traidl-Hoffmann Technical University of Munich
Michael J. Dunn
Michael J. Dunn University College Dublin

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