A Pilot Study on Farmer's lung…An Examination of Precipitating Antibody Positive Group to Thermophilic actinomyces
10.2185/jjrm.27.28
- VernacularTitle:農作業に起因する呼吸器障害 (農夫肺等) に関する研究
- Author:
EISUKE KATO
;
YUZURU KANBE
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- From:Journal of the Japanese Association of Rural Medicine
1978;27(1):28-32
- CountryJapan
- Language:Japanese
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Abstract:
Five hundred and fifty-six persons associated with dairy farming were surveyed by means of a questionnaire for evidence of farmer's lung. Two hundred and eighty-four of them were evaluated with serological study. Any typical symptom of farmer's lung was not found but precipitating antibody to Thermoactinomyces vulgaris was identified in sera from fifty-five (19.4%). The subjects of the antibody positive group have more frequently cough with phlegm than negative group.
