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8074267

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
1994-9-27
pubmed:abstractText
A group of 46 farm workers (32 men), affected by a recurrent "occupational disease of undetermined origin", underwent an immunologic investigation with a Tetranychus urticae (TU) whole-body extract (TU-WBE) prepared in our laboratory. The patients suffered from seasonal attacks of rhinitis, during the summer and autumn periods, when working in open fields (30 subjects) or in greenhouse flower cultivation (16 subjects). In most patients, rhinitis was associated with bronchial asthma (16 subjects), urticaria (14 subjects), or both (three subjects). Allergic alveolitis or other common allergic diseases had been excluded, and a diagnosis of "occupational disease of undetermined origin" had been made before by other medical centers. Ten healthy farm workers and 10 atopic townsmen were chosen as control groups. An in vivo and in vitro diagnostic trial by skin prick testing (SPT) and serum specific IgE dosage with TU-WBE were done in all subjects. Thirty-six patients (78%) were found to be positive to both SPT and the IgE enzyme allergosorbent test (EAST), with a good correlation between IgE serum levels and cutaneous wheal size. Control groups did not show any reaction. The IgE-EAST homologous inhibition test was positive. The IgE-EAST cross-inhibition test excluded cross-reactivity between TU and Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus. The TU-exposure test was positive for the 36 patients with TU-WBE-specific IgE. Three patients who were negative for TU-WBE-specific IgE reacted to the TU-exposure test; in these patients, the scratch-chamber test (Finn chamber) with eggs and droppings from TU was positive.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jul
pubmed:issn
0105-4538
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
49
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
466-71
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1994
pubmed:articleTitle
Farm workers' occupational allergy to Tetranychus urticae: clinical and immunologic aspects.
pubmed:affiliation
Dipartimento di Internistica Clinica e Sperimentale, II Università di Napoli, Italy.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't