Octopus cooking a new cause in a cannery worker

Agent	Cooking octopus
Job	Cook and processor in canning factory
Specific IgE	Strongly Positive 24.6 kU/l, tropomyosin 0.84 ku/l
Skin prick test	positive raw and cooked octopus,
Non-specific reactivity	methacholine 0.62 mg/ml
Serial Peak Flow	positive  (great difference)
BAL	not done
FENO	not done
Specific Challenge	Cutting cooked octopus negative, boiled octopus extract protein 2mg/ml immediate reaction, halibut negative in one atopic control.
Follow-up	no information

References

	Rosado A, Tejedor MA, Benito C, Cárdenas R, González-Mancebo E, Occupational asthma caused by octopus particles, Allergy, 2009;64:1101-1102,

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