Pork meat as a cause of occupational asthma in butchers

Agent
Pork meat

Job
Meat processors (butchers) cutting up pork quarters (2)

Proof
Specific IgE not tested

Skin prick test to pork meat (Hollister-Stier) positive 5 and 10 mm)

Non specific bronchial reactivity normal and unchanged by challenge (1/1); reactive before challenge 1/2

Serial peak flow records not done 2/2

Specific Bronchial Challenge: immediate reaction to nebulised pork meat extract (concentration not stated) 1/1. Control (unspecified) negative
Positive immediate workplace challenge 1/1

Follow up
Better after relocation

References

	Labrecque M, Coté J, Cartier A, Lemière C, Malo J-L., Occupational asthma due to pork antigens, Allergy, 2004;59:893-893,

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