Respiratory inflammation among workers exposed to airborne dust with endotoxins in a coffee curing factory

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 54, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 847-850

  Moen, Bente E ^a   Sakwari, Gloria ^b   Mamuya, Simon H D ^b   Kayumba, Akwilina V ^c   Larsson, Lennart ^d   Pehrson, Christina ^d   Mashalla, Yohana J ^d   Bråtveit, Magne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b MUHIMBILI UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (Tanzania)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BOTSWANA   (Botswana)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDOTOXIN; NITRIC OXIDE;

ADULT; AIR ANALYSIS; AIR SAMPLING; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COFFEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DUST; FEMALE; FOOD PROCESSING; HUMAN; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFLAMMATION;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; BREATH TESTS; COFFEA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; INHALATION EXPOSURE; MALE; NITRIC OXIDE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PARTICULATE MATTER; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; TANZANIA;

LIMULUS;

EID: 84863828312     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: 15365948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JOM.0b013e318250ca24     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. Da Rocha Gomez J, Bedrikow B. Coffee cultivation. In: Stellman JM, ed. Encyclopedia of Occupational Health and Safety. Geneva, Switzerland: International Labor Office; 1998:64:56-64, 58.
2. Figley KD, Rawling FFA. Castor bean: an industrial hazard as a contaminant of green coffee dust and used burlap bags. J Allergy. 1950;21:545-553.
3. Kaye M, Freedman SO. Allergy to raw coffee-An occupational disease. Can Med Assoc J. 1961;84:469-471.
4. van Toorn DW. Coffee worker's lung. Thorax. 1970;25:399-405.
5. Osterman K, Zetterstr̈om O, Johansson SGO. Coffeeworker's allergy. Allergy. 1982;37:313-322.
6. Romano C, Sulotto F, Piolatto G, et al. Factors related to the development of sensitization to green coffee and castor beans allergens among coffee workers. Clin Exp Allergy. 1995;25:643-650.
7. Larese F, Fiorito A, Casiola F, Molinari S, Peresson M, Barbina P, et al. Sensitization to green coffee beans and work related allergic symptoms in coffee workers. Am J Ind Med. 1998;34:623-27. (Pubitemid 28520771)
8. Zuskin E, Valic F, Skuric Z. Respiratory function in coffee workers. Br J Ind Med. 1979;36:117-22. (Pubitemid 9200389)
9. Oldenburg M, Bittner C, Baur X. Health risks due to coffee dust. Chest. 2009;136;536-544.
10. Smith D, Brott K, Koki G. Respiratory impairment in coffee factory-workers in the Asaro Valley of Papua-New-Guinea. Br J Ind Med.1985;42:495-498. (Pubitemid 15058327)
11. Uragoda CG. Acute symptoms in coffee workers. J Trop Med Hyg. 1988;91:169-172.
12. Sekimpi DK, Agaba EF, Okot-Nwang M, Ogaram DA. Occupational coffee dust allergies in Uganda. Afr Newslett Occup Health Safety. 1996;6:6-9.
13. Spaan S, Wouters IM, Oosting I, Docekes G, Heederik D. Exposure to inhalable dust and endotoxins in agricultural industries. J Environ Monit. 2006;8:63-72. (Pubitemid 43362486)
14. Liebers V, Raulf-Heimsoth M, Bruning T. Health effects due to endotoxin inhalation [review]. Arch Toxicol. 2008;82:203-210.
15. Sandrini A, Taylor DR, Thomas PS, Yates DH. Fractional exhaled nitric oxide in asthma: an update. Respirology. 2010;15:57-70.
16. Barnes PJ, Belvisi MG. Nitric oxide and lung disease. Thorax. 1993;48:1034-1043. (Pubitemid 23319631)
17. Barnes PJ. Pathophysiology of allergic inflammation. Immunol Rev. 2011;242:31-50.
18. ATS/ERS recommendations for standardized procedures for the online and offline measurement of exhaled lower respiratory oxide and nasal nitric oxide 2005. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2005;171:912-930.
19. Khalili B, Boggs PB, Bahna SL. Reliability of a new hand-held device for the measurement of exhaled nitric oxide. Allergy. 2007;62:1171-1174. (Pubitemid 47374024)
20. Menzies D, Nair A, Lipworth BJ. Portable exhaled nitric oxidemeasurements: comparison with the "gold standard" technique. Chest. 2007;131:410-414. (Pubitemid 46280400)
21. Lane SR, Nicholls PJ, Sewell RDE. The measurement and health impact of endotoxin contamination in organic dusts from multiple sources: focus on the cotton industry. Inhal Toxicol. 2004;16:217-229. (Pubitemid 38470385)
22. Stewart L, Katial R. Exhaled nitric oxide. Immunol Allergy Clin N Am. 2007;27:571-586. (Pubitemid 350051336)
23. Health Council of the Netherlands. Endotoxins. Health-Based Recommended Occupational Exposure Limit. The Hague: Health Council of the Netherlands; 2012. Publication no. 2010/04OSH. ISBN 978-90-5549-8.