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Bronchial asthma due to inhaled wood dust: Tanganyika aningré
Author(s) -
PAGGIARO P. L.,
CANTALUPI R.,
FILILRI M.,
LOI A. M.,
PARLANTI A.,
TOMA G.,
BASCHIERI L.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
clinical and experimental allergy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.462
H-Index - 154
eISSN - 1365-2222
pISSN - 0954-7894
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2222.1981.tb02181.x
Subject(s) - atopy , asthma , medicine , precipitin , provocation test , allergy , radioallergosorbent test , immunoglobulin e , allergen , immunology , dust mites , dermatology , antibody , pathology , alternative medicine
Summary Three cases of bronchial asthma due to wood dust from Tanganyika anigré are reported. All patients were woodworkers and had symptoms of dyspnoea, cough and wheezing, and sometimes itchiness and rhinorrhoea, after exposure to Tanganyika aningré. The intradermal skin tests were positive for untigenic extract of Tanganyika aningré. In two patients the bronchial provocation test with the wood dust and with the soluble extract inhaled by aerosol was positive showing an immediate reaction; in the same patients bronchial hyperreactivity was also found. Atopy was present in one subject. No precipitins or specific IgE were found in patient sera by the immunodiffusion technique or by RAST.