Occupational sensitization to soy allergens in workers at a processing facility

Clinical and Experimental Allergy

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1022-1030

  Green, B J ^a   Cummings, K J ^a   Rittenour, W R ^a   Hettick, J M ^a   Bledsoe, T A ^a   Blachere, F M ^a   Siegel, P D ^a   Gaughan, D M ^a   Kullman, G J ^a   Kreiss, K ^a   Cox Ganser, J ^a   Beezhold, D H ^a  

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

Author keywords

Allergy; Asthma; Dust; Exposure; IgE; IgG; Occupational; Respiratory; Soy; Workplace

Indexed keywords

3 PHOSPHOSHIKIMATE 1 CARBOXYVINYLTRANSFERASE; ANTIGEN; BETA CONGLYCININ; FOOD ALLERGEN; GLYCININ; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E ANTIBODY; SOYBEAN PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESENSITIZATION; FEMALE; FOOD ALLERGY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; SOYBEAN; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; ULTRA PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; WILD TYPE;

ADULT; AGED; AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ALLERGENS; ASTHMA; FEMALE; FOOD-PROCESSING INDUSTRY; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY, IMMEDIATE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PREVALENCE; SKIN TESTS; SOYBEAN PROTEINS; SOYBEANS; TENNESSEE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79958862490     PISSN: 09547894     EISSN: 13652222     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2222.2011.03756.x     Document Type: Article

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