Agent | Industries and Occupations | Skin Test | Specific IgE antibodies |
Vegetable Dusts and Woods | . | + | - |
Grain | Grain handlers | + | + |
Flour (Wheat/Rye) | Millers, bakers | + | + |
Coffee beans | Planters, processors | . | + |
Castor beans | Oil producers | . | + |
Tea dust | Tea workers | + | . |
Tobacco | Tobacco workers | + | + |
Western Red cedar California Redwood Oak Mahogany | Sawmillers, carpenters, cabinetmakers, other woodworkers, construction workers | + - - | + - |
Colophony (pine resin) | Electronics workers | . | + |
Gum acacia | Printers | + | . |
Animals, birds, shellfish | . | . | . |
Rats Mice Guinea Pigs Rabbits | Animal handlers, laboratory workers, veterinarians | + + + + | . + |
Pigeons | Pigeon breeders | + | . |
Chickens | Poultry workers | + | + |
Turkeys | Poultry workers | + | + |
Crabs | Crab processors | + | . |
Prawns | Prawn processors | + | + |
Oysters | Oyster farmers | + | + |
Enzymes | . | . | . |
Subtilisins | Detergent manufacture | + | + |
Papain | Meat packaging | + | + |
Trypsin | Pharmaceutical workers | + | + |
Pepsin | Pharmaceutical workers | + | + |
Metals | . | . | . |
Platinum and salts | Platinum refining and plating | + | . |
Chromium salts | Tanning of leather | + | + |
Nickel | Metal plating | + | + |
Cobalt | Manufacture of hard metals | + | . |
Vanadium | Manufacture of hard metals | . | . |
Miscellaneous chemicals | . | . | . |
Toluene diisocyanate (TDI) | Manufacture of polyurethane foam, painters, plastics manufacture | + | + |
Diphenylmethane diisocyanate (MDI) | Core makers in foundries, painters | - | + |
Phthallic anhydride | Epoxy resins, plastics | + | + |
Trimellitic anhydride | Epoxy resins, plastics | + | + |
Formaldehyde | Hospital workers, laboratory technicians, chemical workers | - | - |
Azodicarbonamide | Plastics and rubber workers | - | . |
Ethanolamines | Solderers, spray painters, metal machining | - | . |
Agent | Exposures |
Animal | |
Small animals rats, mice, guinea pigs | Pet owning |
Domestic animals | Domestic animal owning |
Wool | Wool working |
Birds (feathers, serum droppings) | Bird breeding |
Sea squirt fluid | Oyster and pearl gathering |
Culture oysters (marine organisms) | Oyster shucking |
Glue (fish origin) | Bookbinding |
Hog trypsin, pancreadc extract, amylase | Cystic fibrosis (both children and parents) |
Bacillus subtilis, esperase | Detergent enzymes |
Human hair products | Hairdressing |
Beetles (coleoptera) | Insect collecting |
Locusts | Insect Collecting |
Moths, butterflies | Butterfly collecting |
Stick insects | Insect collecting |
Cockroaches | Homes, insect collecting |
Crickets | Outdoor work |
Housefly maggots | Angling |
River flies sewerworm flies, sewage flies | Outdoor work |
Ivory dust | Ivory carving |
Vegetable | |
Wood dusts of various types | Woodworking, carpentry |
Latex | Use of latex gloves, condoms; spina bifida |
Papain | Food technologists |
Diastase | Food handling |
Karaya gum | Food processing |
Gum arabic, acacia, tragacandh | Printing |
Altensana, Aspergillus, spores of Cladosporium | Indoor air pollution |
Verticillium, paccilomyses, Merulius lacrymans | Domestic work |
Pink rot fungus | Celery picking |
Mushroom molds | Mushroom picking |
Potatoes | Homemakers |
Alkaline hydrolysis derivative of gluten | Biscuit making |
Chemical | |
Trimellitic anhydride | Epoxy resins |
Ammonium thioglycate | Hairdressing cosmetics |
Dioazonium salt | Photocopying |
Colophony | Soldering |
Persulfate salts, extract of henna | Hairdressing |
Reactive dyes | Texile dying |
Paraphenylene diamine | Fur dying |
Psyllium | Mixing laxative powders |
Amprolium hydrochlolide | Poultry feed mixing |
Pesticides, insecticides | Application, fumigation |
Sulphone chloramides | Home brewing |
Hexamethaline diisocyanate | Auto body spray-painting |
Toluene diisocyanate | Polyurethane |