Table 3 Number of precipitin arcs for four antigens in workers exposed to argan and non-exposed controls
From: Working with argan cake: a new etiology for hypersensitivity pneumonitis
Case | Precipitin arcs n | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Argan granulates | Argan powder | Sterile finished product | Bacillusspp | Streptomyces marokkonensis | ||||||
ES* | DD† | ES | DD | ES | DD | ES | DD | ES | DD | |
Workers exposed to Argan | ||||||||||
1 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
4 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
7 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
8 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
9 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Non exposed Controls | ||||||||||
1 (serum pool‡) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |