دورية أكاديمية
Fungal contamination of the respiratory tract and associated respiratory impairment among sawmill workers in India
| العنوان: | Fungal contamination of the respiratory tract and associated respiratory impairment among sawmill workers in India |
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| المؤلفون: | Asit Adhikari, Subhashis Sahu, Arghya Bandyopadhyay, Paul D. Blanc, Subhabrata Moitra |
| المصدر: | ERJ Open Research, Vol 1, Iss 2 (2015) |
| بيانات النشر: | European Respiratory Society, 2015. |
| سنة النشر: | 2015 |
| المجموعة: | LCC:Medicine |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Medicine |
| الوصف: | Wood processing workers are exposed to wood-associated microbiological contaminants, including fungi. Our aim was to study the potential association between sputum fungus and adverse respiratory effects in such workers. In a group of sawmill workers, we administered a respiratory questionnaire, performed lung function testing and quantified the proportions of leukocytes in spontaneously expectorated sputum samples. We identified fungal species by DNA sequencing. Of 54 sawmill workers, 19 yielded fungal positive sputum samples (mean age 42.5±10.4 years) and 35 were negative for fungus (mean age 36.9±5.2 years). The fungus was identified as Candida sp. in all samples. Those with fungal-positive sputum, compared to others, reported more cough (26% versus 63%) and haemoptysis (6% versus 37%) (both p |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article |
| وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 2312-0541 23120541 |
| Relation: | http://openres.ersjournals.com/content/1/2/00023-2015.full; https://doaj.org/toc/2312-0541 |
| DOI: | 10.1183/23120541.00023-2015 |
| URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/6517aebfb0704c7985b61475b0368c29 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsdoj.6517aebfb0704c7985b61475b0368c29 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 23120541 |
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| DOI: | 10.1183/23120541.00023-2015 |