Occupational Asthma Reference

Newman Taylor AJ, Pickering CAC, TurnerWarwick M, Pepys J, Respiratory allergy to a factory humidifier contaminant presenting as pyrexia of undetermined origin, Br Med J, 1978;ii:94-95,

Keywords: occupational asthma, asthma , humidifier, humidifier fever, IgG, challenge, PUO, printing, Phialophora, Fusarium, Cephalosporium

Known Authors

Tony Pickering, Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester, UK Tony Pickering

Jack Pepys, Royal Brompton Hospital Jack Pepys

Tony Newman Taylor, Royal Brompton Hospital, London Tony Newman Taylor

Margaret Turner-Warwick, Royal Brompton Hospital Margaret Turner-Warwick

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Abstract

We report a patient who had attacks of fever which were particularly
acute upon return to work after a weekend or other absence, but
which improved during the working week. They were probably
attributable to a reaction to contaminants growing in the factory
humidifier system. (The challenge was to freeze dried humidifier sludge at 10mg/ml)

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