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3080509

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1 Pt 1
pubmed:dateCreated
1986-2-28
pubmed:abstractText
Workers in a scientific laboratory, complaining of respiratory symptoms related to their contact with fruit flies, were tested to detect allergy to these insects. Seven of 22 of these individuals had respiratory symptoms, and six of these seven demonstrated both immediate-type skin reactions and positive RAST results. Nasobronchial challenge tests elicited responses also in six of the seven exposed workers with symptoms. Neither the majority of the exposed group without symptoms nor the nonexposed control group reacted to the skin test, RAST, or nasobronchial challenge. Specificity of the fruit-fly allergen and its presence in the dust of the laboratory cultivation room were confirmed by RAST-inhibition experiments. The present results reflect the high prevalence of occupational respiratory disease caused by an IgE-mediated allergy induced by the contact with laboratory fruit flies and fruit-fly cultures.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
0091-6749
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
77
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
108-13
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1986
pubmed:articleTitle
Respiratory allergy to laboratory fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster).
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article