Evaluation of the prevalence of antiwheat-, anti-flour dust, and anti-α-amylase specific IgE antibodies in US blood donors

Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology

Volumn 92, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 649-653

  Biagini, Raymond E ^a   MacKenzie, Barbara A ^a   Sammons, Deborah L ^a   Smith, Jerome P ^a   Striley, Cynthia A F ^a   Robertson, Shirley K ^a   Snawder, John E ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; AMYLASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E;

ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD DONOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUST; EVALUATION; FLOUR; HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL ASTHMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROPREVALENCE; UNITED STATES; WHEAT; BLOOD; EPIDEMIOLOGY; IMMUNOLOGY; PREVALENCE; WHEAT ALLERGY;

ALLERGENS; ALPHA-AMYLASE; BLOOD DONORS; DUST; FLOUR; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; PREVALENCE; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; TRITICUM; WHEAT HYPERSENSITIVITY;

EID: 3242812136     PISSN: 10811206     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1081-1206(10)61431-7     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Thiel H, Ulmer WT. Bakers' asthma: development and possibility for treatment. Chest. 1980;78(Suppl):400-405.
2. Ramazzini B. De morbis artificum diatriba [Bernard Ramazzinis Abhandlung von den Krankheiten der Kuunstler and Handwerker]. J Chr G Ackermann, Stendal. 1780;ca 1700.
3. Houba R, Doekes G, Heederik D. Occupational respiratory allergy in bakery workers: a review of the literature. Am J Ind Med. 1998;34:529-546.
4. Droste J, Myny K, Van Sprundel M, et al. Allergic sensitization, symptoms, and lung function among bakery workers as compared with a nonexposed work population. J Occup Environ Med. 2003;45:648-655.
5. Baur X, Degens PO, Sander I. Baker's asthma: still among the most frequent occupational respiratory disorders. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 1998;102:984-997.
6. Baur X, Posch A. Characterized allergens causing bakers' asthma. Allergy. 1998;53:562-566.
7. Heederik D, Houba R. An exploratory quantitative risk assessment for high molecular weight sensitizers: wheat flour. Ann Occup Hyg. 2001;45:175-185.
8. Baur X, Sander I, Posch A, Raulf-Heimsoth M. Baker's asthma due to the enzyme xylanase: a new occupational allergen. Clin Exp Allergy. 1998;28:1591-1593.
9. Alvarez MJ, Tabar AI, Quirce S, et al. Diversity of allergens causing occupational asthma among cereal workers as demonstrated by exposure procedures. Clin Exp Allergy. 1996;26:147-153.
10. Houba R, Heederik DJ, Doekes G, van Run PE. Exposure-sensitization relationship for α-amylase allergens in the baking industry. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 1996;154:130-136.
11. Brisman J, Jarvholm B, Lillienberg L. Exposure-response relations for self reported asthma and rhinitis in bakers. Occup Environ Med. 2000;57:335-340.
12. Mastrangelo G, Bombana S, Priante E, Gallo A, Saia B. Repeated case-control studies as a method of surveillance for asthma in occupations. J Occup Environ Med. 1997;39:51-57.
13. Houba R, Heederik D, Doekes G. Wheat sensitization and work-related symptoms in the baking industry are preventable: an epidemiologic study. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 1998;158:1499-1503.
14. Baur X. Baker's asthma: causes and prevention. Int Arch Occup Environ Health. 1999;72:292-296.
15. Gautrin D, Infante-Rivard C, Dao TV, Magnan-Larose M, Desjardins D, Malo JL. Specific IgE-dependent sensitization, atopy, and bronchial hyperresponsiveness in apprentices starting exposure to protein-derived agents. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 1997;155:1841-1847.
16. Ownby DR, Ownby HE, McCullough J, Shafer AW. The prevalence of anti-latex IgE antibodies in 1000 volunteer blood donors. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 1996;97:1188-1192.
17. Gutman S. The role of Food and Drug Administration regulation of in vitro diagnostic devices: applications to genetics testing. Clin Chem. 1999;45:746-749.
18. Armentia A, Martin-Santos JM, Quintero A, et al. Bakers' asthma: prevalence and evaluation of immunotherapy with a wheat flour extract. Ann Allergy. 1990;65:265-272.
19. Bataille A, Anton M, Mollat F, et al. Respiratory allergies among symptomatic bakers and pastry cooks: initial results of a prevalence study [in French]. Allerg Immunol (Paris). 1995;27:7-10.
20. Bjorksten F, Backman A, Jarvinen KA, et al. Immunoglobulin E specific to wheat and rye flour proteins. Clin Allergy. 1977;7:473-483.
21. Brisman J, Belin L. Clinical and immunological responses to occupational exposure to α-amylase in the baking industry. Br J Ind Med. 1991;48:604-608.
22. Cullinan P, Cook A, Nieuwenhuijsen MJ, et al. Allergen and dust exposure as determinants of work-related symptoms and sensitization in a cohort of flour-exposed workers: a case-control analysis. Ann Occup Hyg. 2001;45:97-103.
23. Mergel R, Heger M, Globisch A, et al. Quantitative bronchial challenge tests with wheat flour dust administered by spinhaler: comparison with aqueous wheat flour extract inhalation. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 1997;100:199-207.
24. Prichard MG, Ryan G, Musk AW. Wheat flour sensitisation and airways disease in urban bakers. Br J Ind Med. 1984;41:450-454.
25. Prichard MG, Ryan G, Walsh BJ, Musk AW. Skin test and RAST responses to wheat and common allergens and respiratory disease in bakers. Clin Allergy. 1985;15:203-210.
26. Armentia A, Martinez A, Castrodeza R, et al. Occupational allergic disease in cereal workers by stored grain pests. J Asthma. 1997;34:369-378.
27. Smith TA, Lumley KP, Hui EH. Allergy to flour and fungal amylase in bakery workers. Occup Med (Lond). 1997;47:21-24.
28. Sandiford CP, Tee RD, Taylor AJ. The role of cereal and fungal amylases in cereal flour hypersensitivity. Clin Exp Allergy. 1994;24:549-557.
29. Biagini RE, Krieg EF, Pinkerton LE, Hamilton RG. Receiver operating characteristics analyses of Food and Drug Administration-cleared serological assays for natural rubber latex-specific immunoglobulin E antibody. Clin Diagn Lab Immunol. 2001;8:1145-1149.
30. Yeang HY. Prevalence of latex allergy may be vastly overestimated when determined by in vitro assays. Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol. 2000;84:628-632.
31. Meade BJ, Weissman DN, Beezhold DH. Latex allergy: past and present. Int Immunopharmacol. 2002;2:225-238.
32. Biagini RE, Krieg EF, Hamilton RG. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) and reproducibility analyses of PDA-cleared latex-specific IgE [abstract]. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2000;103: S124.
33. NCCLS. Evaluation Methods and Analytical Performance Characteristics of Immunological Assays for Human Immunoglobulin E (IgE) Antibodies of Defined Allergen Specificities: Approved Guideline. Wayne, PA: NCCLS; 1997. NCCLS document I/LA20-A.