Occupational Asthma Reference
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Grant IW, Blackadder ES, Greenberg M, Blyth W,
Extrinsic allergic alveolitis in Scottish maltworkers,
Br Med J,
1976;1:490-493,
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Keywords: alveolitis, aspergillus, Aspergillus clavatus, malt, Scotland
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Abstract
In a survey of respiratory disease in the Scottish malting industry 5.2% of employees were found to have symptoms of extrinsic allergic alveolitis. In most cases the disease was mild and not associated with any serious respiratory disability. It was significantly less common where modern mechanical methods of malting were used. Mycological and serological studies suggested that it was usually caused by a type 3 allergic reaction to Aspergillus clavatus
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